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Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Originally Posted by tim098
It says on the Unetbootin website that bootable USB drives only work with PC's.
It should work with anything which will boot from USB
-- don't get too caught up with marketing and remember that a Mac is a personal computer and try it.
It should work with anything which will boot from USB
-- don't get too caught up with marketing and remember that a Mac is a personal computer and try it.
The Unetbootin website specifically states "not on Macs".
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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Originally Posted by tim098
The Unetbootin website specifically states "not on Macs".
I suspect they're referring to non x86 Apple computers because if they mean all Apple computers that mean you cannot install Linux on them, ever, since unetbootin just creates a USB stick bootable on any x86 computer on which the BIOS can be made to boot from USB. If your Apple product won't boot from USB nothing will be able to change that.
Edit: I recall that, perhaps, Apple products won't boot from USB generally so this may help: http://linux.about.com/od/howtos/ss/...ng-Windows.htm
Last edited by 273; 04-03-2015 at 07:01 AM.
Reason: UEFI
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