How to install Ubuntu on OSX 10.6.8 / Snow Leopard

[pmasson]

Trying to install Ubuntu on:

• MacBookPro1.1
• Intel Core Duo (2gHz)
• 2GB Memory

I have attempted the following on both the above machine, and on a newer MacBookAir6.2 running, OSX 10.9.5:

1. "How to install Ubuntu on MacBook using USB Stick",
   (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ho...%20USB%20Stick).
   
   • RESULT: No errors reported during this process when done on both the MacBook Pro and MacBook air, however the USB is not recognized as a bootable device when restarting the MacBook Pro: only the Mac HD icon appears when holding ALT/Option key during reboot.
     
     • Also reviewed and followed this video covering the same process (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osgsM20Nkc), again same results, USB is not recognized as a bootable device when restarting the MacBook Pro.
   
   
2. Tried to create a bootable USB using UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.github.io/).
   
   • RESULT: On the MacBook Pro, could not create a bootable USB, as no USB device was listed/available in the menu items of the UNetbootin interface (although the Mac did have the USB icon on the desktop). I tried USBs formatted as both FAT32 and a Mac journaled (GUID), but neither of these were discoverable through UNetbootin.
   • RESULT: On the MacBook Air, I could create a bootable USB through the UNetbootin interface, but again the USB was not recognized, and only the Mac HD icon appeared when holding ALT/Option key during reboot.
   
   
3. "Create a bootable stick on MacOS" (https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutoria...ick-on-macos#0)
   
   • RESULT: The suggested utility for creating the bootable disk, "Etcher" (https://etcher.io/), will not run on the MacBook Pro.
   • RESULT: After installing and flashing a USB stat-up disk through Etcher on the MacBook Air, again the USB was not recognized, and only the Mac HD icon appeared when holding ALT/Option key during reboot.
   • COMMENT: The first page of instructions on the above Ubuntu tutorial state, "There are a few additional considerations when booting the USB stick on Apple hardware. This is because Apple's ‘Startup Manager', summoned by holding the Option/alt (⌥) key when booting, won't detect the USB stick without a specific partition table and layout. We'll cover this in a later step." However, they do not actually, "cover this in a later step."

Thanks for your help.

[pquinn38]

Does anyone have a solution for the above mentioned problem. I have macbook pro a1150 runing 10.6, and the issues above are the same.

Thank you

Paul

[shantiq]

hi guys

a small howto I concocted to install 14.04 on a 2005 SnowLeopard Macbook
this works for me here
Have a look mayhaps