02-03-2018, 03:05 PM
Hi I've used Linux Lite on a PC before and like it but now want to revive a perfectly good Mac Book Pro which is way past its "sell by date" - ie I've reached the maximum version of the O/S 10.6.8 and of course nothing works. Because it is a sound machine and I don't want to throw it away. I would like both as a fun exercise and if successful as a working machine to install and run Linux. One way (obviously) is to do a fresh OSX install and then run Parallels or Virtual Box but my preferred option is try to install Linux as the sole O/S on the machine. I cannot find - but maybe haven't looked hard enough - any guidance. So my question is does anyone have the experience? Be really glad to have any guidance that anyone can offer. The PB is a 17" running an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.33Ghz - I think the processor is a 64-bit but that Apple have restricted it (EFI / Boot) to 32-bit. What I want to try to achieve is to download and burn a bootable Linux Installer to use on the PB. Thanks Kris.