#UBUNTU ON A MAC HOW TO#
#UBUNTU ON A MAC MAC OS#

The LTS denotes that this version is a Long Term Support version, in other words this version an LTS version includes updates for new hardware, security patches and updates to the Ubuntu stack for a period of five years following the version release. In the dropdown menu, under Choose your flavour, ensure that you select 64-bit Mac (AMD64) then click the Download button.Īt the time of writing, the current version of Ubuntu is 14.04 LTS which was released in April 2014. Open a web browser and navigate to the Ubuntu download page.

Ensure that the GUID Partition Table radio button is selected and click OK.

Selecting the correct GUID Partition Table option

#UBUNTU ON A MAC MAC OS#

Change the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).Enter a name for the drive, in this example Ubuntu Mac.Select 1 Partition from the drop-down menu.In the left-hand pane, click on the USB drive to select it.Launch the Disk Utility app which is located in Applications > Utilities. The first part of the process is to format a USB drive such that it is bootable on a Mac.įind a USB drive, of 2GB capacity or more, and plug it into the Mac.

#UBUNTU ON A MAC HOW TO#

How to Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive Regardless of whether you have thousands of workstations, or not, experimenting with Ubuntu from a USB drive is a good way to get an introduction to this interesting and alternative operating system. Since its first release in October 2004, it is estimated that, in 2011, Ubuntu had in excess of 20-million users worldwide and it is being increasingly adopted for large-scale public sector deployments, notably the Gendarmerie Nationale, thus replacing expensive Microsoft Office licences with OpenOffice for 5,000 workstations. Based on Debian Linux, Ubuntu is estimated to be used on more than 26% of all Linux websites. Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term meaning Human-ness, recently released version 14.04 LTS (Long Term Support) codename Trusty Tahr.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to create an Ubuntu USB live-drive, using a Mac, to test on a Mac. If you are interested in experimenting with Linux, you can do worse than to test-drive Ubuntu from a USB drive. Ubuntu is, perhaps, one of the most accessible distributions of Linux available to the home computer user or enthusiast.