I'm writing this from a MacBookPro7,1 and have also installed Mint on an older 32-bit MacBook).
There are several forum members here which have experience with Macs (e.g. Dont try to mix different guides, that's a recipe for disaster.īest to ask question when you are unsure what to do or dont understand fully instructions.
You will find many different guides on the internet to put linux on a mac some will be recent, some older, and you will always get conflicting information because there are different possible approaches (booting in Legacy or EFI mode with refit or refind or grub with the bootloader in the MBR or on the ESP or on a dedicated hfs+ partition.). You can get info about your hardware from "About this Mac" in OSX.Īlso, do you want to single boot Mint or dual-boot with OSX ? That changes the situation. Be careful it's exactly your model, some look very close but have differences which are important for the following. Please specify your model by giving the corresponding specification page on. Simplest is to use a 32-bit Mint version.
#Install linux on old macbook air 64 Bit
Less old models, but still old, are a mix between 32 and 64 bit : CPU is 64-bit but EFI is 32-bit.
Among them, old models are 32-bit, so you need a 32-bit Mint version. The oldest models are power-pc instead of intel, and Mint will not work on this I think. First you need to specify which mac model you are speaking about.