If you get that error you're probably trying to boot a 64 bit version of Ubuntu on a Mac that doesn't support it.Įverything started to make sense when I burned a 32 bit version of Ubuntu Linux Desktop 16.04.1 LTS to a DVD and booted up the MacBook with that. I first burned a 64 bit version and when I tried to boot from it I got an error asking me to "Select CD-ROM Boot Type" and the keyboard froze so it would not boot. So I downloaded the ISO file of Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS then used Disk Utility to burn that ISO file to a blank DVD. Lucky for me I had a Superdrive DVD burner in an external USB enclosure I had removed from a Macbook Pro to replace with a SSD drive. I tried Etcher and Unetbootin neither one made USB bootable drives that were recognized by my old MacBook. I tried in vain to create EFI bootable USB drives with Ubuntu that my old MacBook would recognize when I started up the computer holding down the OPTION key. Through trial and error I found that my old MacBook from 2007 didn't support Ubuntu 64 bit so I found a 32 bit distribution of Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS that worked for my machine. So I thought why not replace the system with Windows or Linux so I can run a current web browser on it? I decided on Ubuntu Linux because it runs better on older systems than Windows. These days I wouldn't advise browsing the internet without a current web browser you can update. I still used it to browse the internet but both Firefox & Google Chrome had stopped providing updates for Snow Leopard. Depending on the operating system you’re running, you may need to take additional steps to make the drive accessible to yourself or other users on the virtual machine, just as you would with a physical computer.I've had this old MacbBook 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo (T7200) with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard gathering dust for years. The virtual machine sees the drive as if it were a real disc drive. The process is the same to have VirtualBox mount a CD or DVD ISO. Click “Empty” and select the CD/DVD icon.Ĭlick “Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file” and navigate to the ISO file you want to connect to your virtual machine. You should see an image of a disc and the word “Empty” under “Controller: IDE” in the Storage menu. Click the “Storage” tab in the Settings menu. To have VirtualBox attach an ISO, select the virtual machine in the main menu in VirtualBox and click the “Settings” button. This is useful for installing operating systems or other software or files on your virtual machines. VirtualBox can connect to ISO files you have on your computer. You may find this FOSS page and others you haven´t “loaded” your ISO yet. Also take a look at web pages of the FSF and GNU-Linux to see if they coincide with your mind set? I decided on Trisquel for an old HP G60 Notebook come laptop and use it daily such that Dell ubuntu 16.04 LTS is hardly used at all. I got all my distros free with magazine issues with reviews of them before checking what it’sFOSS and DistroWatch had to say. Take a break and reboot as normal – as you were just running distros in RAM nothing has been altered in your computer at all. Next reboot with another distro and compare back to back. It is blindingly simple: Just boot up with a demo distro DVD or USB stick and hey presto you are running your choice of distro and can look at it’s features or lack of them and decide later. You have been given good advice so far but could I suggest a different approach which worked so well for me and have since had difficulties getting VM to work. Yes I too used UNIX for Pafec DOGS – Design Office Graphics System way back then. Hey I’m retired too – isn’t it great? Miss the humour of engineers and others at work. Hi there Patrick welcome to this great community with so many helpful posters.
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