![]() ![]() I upgraded the memory to 4G (because I had some spare) and I used a SSD. Again, and EFI installation was the result of taking the defaults, and it works fine. I did however use a SSD hard disk, which improves performance.Īgain, the standard install worked, using the same procedures as the MacBook above, except this time with the 64-bit version. The performance is excellent, despite having only 2G of memory. This meant that I didn’t have the 30-second white screen wait that you get when you have a non-EFI image on the HD. ![]() I accepted the default suggestions for partitioning and an EFI boot was the result. If the HD has partitions on it to start with you need to use the “hold the command (alt) key down on powerup” procedure, and select the USB drive to boot. I clicked on that and booted into the Ubuntu installer. Mac Mini Boot Device Menu The EFI boot option was my USB stick. After a brief pause you’ll be shown the boot device menu which looks something like that shown below. I created a “Startup Disk” memory stick from my existing Ubuntu Mate 16.04 host using the 18.04 386 iso image. This is simple, just boot up the Mac Mini and hold down the left ALT key. The standard install worked with no tweaking. If you “Try Ubuntu” first, you can use GParted to remove any existing partitions. The important thing to do is to make sure the hard disk has no partitions on it to start with. I ended up using the 386 version and it worked well. I tried installing the 64-bit version, but it kept glitching when formatting the disk. I’m reporting on my recent installation of 18.04 on two Apple Macs.
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