[Wolves] Installing Linux on a 8 year old mac book

[Barry W]

Ok, seems it's not as easy as I was hoping :/ I've installed Linux on a few
old PC's so I'm not a total noob at this, but this mac lark is very tricky.
I've burnt the iso to a cd, so it should be a matter on shoving it in the
drive, hitting c during boot etc. But no, the mac does not recognise the
disk (I've tested it in a pc so I know the cd is ok). Also tried a USB
install too, again no joy.

On 22 February 2016 at 20:51, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint <
mark.croft.lug at gmail.com> wrote:

> is apple being more open about the hardware now? i have apple machine
> that has some sort of hardware fault just not got around to finding
> out about it. I can't remember the details. all the hardware built
> into the screen its about 10 years old i believe.
>
> just wonder if it worth getting it fixed and use linux on it.
>
> mark
>
> On 22 February 2016 at 20:34, Alex Willmer <alex at moreati.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 22 February 2016 at 19:16, Barry W <baza41 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> OK. How easy or otherwise would it be to install linux (I'm thinking
> >> Debian) on my old mac book?
> >
> > Probably quite easy, just burn a install disc, then boot from it by
> > holding down c during power up. Be aware if it's 8 years old then the
> > CPU may be a Core Duo, that means 32-bit only - no x86_64. See
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook#Model_specifications
> >
> > At 8 years old, even Macbooks have pretty good drivers on Linux. To be
> > sure try it with a live CD/DVD e.g. https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
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