Start the installation by clicking the bottom-right CD icon and follow the wizard. After a minute or 2 the live CD is started.

EFI/BOOT/bootIA32.efi ( ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac, used ev– ery– where).

To be able to boot this ISO from a USB stick on a MacBook, you have to create FAT32 formatted USB stick which contains an EFI/BOOT/ folder, with 2 files in there: Creating a MacBook compatible bootable USB stick #įirst of all I downloaded the 32-bit ISO of the latest elementary OS release (Freya).

I’d like to explain how I installed elementary OS on my MacBook including full disk encryption. But I was interested in this lightweight Ubuntu based OS to replace OS X on my MacBook. Normally I use Debian with i3 or sometimes Gnome3. Lately I stumbled upon this “Linux Sucks” YouTube video, which showed the enormous growth of elementary OS on in the past years. It was viewable, but with annoying frame-drop here and there. What always frustrated me a bit is that this MacBook wasn’t 100% capable to show 720p YouTube videos.

Now almost all videos are available in >720p format. At the same time YouTube started (2008) offering 720p HD videos.

I also upgraded OS X to 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard and in the end to 10.7 Lion. Along the way I upgraded it to 2GB RAM and gave it a fantastic boost by replacing the HDD by an Intel 320 Series SSD. In January 2007 I bought my first OS X device, a white 13.3-inch MacBook, running OS X 10.4 Tiger on a 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, having 1GB of RAM.

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