I have a 2010 Macbook pro running Mavericks and Windows 7 on a 250gb SSD. I just removed the cd drive and installed my old 250 gb hard drive. So now I have two drives. I would like to make the hard drive purely for a linux distribution.
How should I go about doing this?
Some things to note/ consider:
1. I have no CD drive so I would like to boot up from a USB.
2. I read that Mavericks has issues with dual booting. So I can't trust many sources?
3. What file format should I erase the new drive to.
4. Also should I use rEFInd for booting purposes?
5. I am aware there are plety of tutorials that walk you through installing linux but I want to have
A second hard drive JUST for linux.
My current plan is:
Reformat drive with Mac OS Extended (journalized)…. Install rEFInd…. Burn ubuntu ISO to flash drive… install ubuntu though rEFInd?
I have no clue if this is at all correct
Thanks in advance…
Best Answer
Save yourself a lot of pain (and time) by using virtual machines. VMware Fusion is $50 and lets you run multiple Mac OS, multiple Windows OS, linux, DOS etc. all at the same time.
I do web development, so I need to use Internet Exploder in 4 different versions. I can't do that on one boot, but I can have 3 instances of windows open at once. My job would take a LOT longer if I had to multi-boot my machine.