(Usually called Macintosh HD)Īdd 2 new partitions with the sizes you wish to designate for a 'root partition' and 'swap partition'.įormat them both with the FAT filesystem.
Here are the steps needed for installing Mint Linux 🙂įirst within OSX use the disk utility to shrink the main OSX partition. I run everything Natively for best performance.
The rEFIt bootloader works just fine on harddrives 500gb or lower, on my 750gb drive it doesn't seem to install correctly. Hello I run OSX Lion just fine with the 'Commodore OS Vision' (Mint 10 based) on my late 2011, Macbook Pro.
