Make sure you choose ‘GUID Partition Map’ from the Scheme dropdown. When you click Erase, you’ll get a few options. Once you’ve found it, click on it (making sure you definitely have the right disk), and press Erase. I’ve circled my one on the left hand side. When you launch the app, find the USB stick icon. Launch that App, and you’ll see something similar to the below screenshot: Mac Disk Utility In Utilities you’ll find an Apple app called ‘Disk Utility’. To initialise your USB stick, go to your Applications menu.

It’s commonly known as ‘Formatting’, but those Cupertino Cliques like to call it ‘Initialise’ instead 🙂 Regardless of whether you have a blank USB stick, or one with lots of files, you are going to need to completely erase the contents of it. It’s time to pop your USB stick in your Mac. If you are downloading Ubuntu, you can get it here: Step 2: Erase / Format / Initialise your USB Stick

This may seem obvious – but just in case you haven’t already downloaded your Linux distro, make sure you grab the right one for your machine (if it’s a new Mac, it’s going to be the 64-bit ISO image – the filename usually ends amd64.iso. If you want a full tutorial on how to install Linux on a Mac computer, check out our guide. However, this is 2016, and people don’t have CDRW drives any more, so let’s find out how to do this on your beloved mac. USB sticks were more meant to pop regular files onto, not disk images. They weren’t really intended to be put onto USB sticks. In the past, we’d ‘burn’ this image onto a blank CD or DVD. So, just to be clear, you have downloaded Linux (say Ubuntu) from the Ubuntu website. Unfortunately, Mac users have to go through a few more hurdles to get an ISO image onto a USB stick in order to make it boot properly. If you’ve used tools like UNetBootin before, then you’ll have found it a nice easy graphical way on a PC. So, you’ve got a mac computer and you want to put the ISO you just downloaded onto it. How I got my job in Linux: from Newbie to Pro.How to install Ubuntu 18.10 on a Macbook Pro.How to install Linux on a Macintosh and dual boot with macOS.Moving to Linux? Bring your Google Drive with you.How to use Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon S3 and more in Linux.Howto: What is Git and Github? How do I use it and why should I care?.Analysing system performance with ‘Top’.Files, Directories and the Linux Filing System.

Chapter 3: Choosing a Linux Distribution.

Chapter 2: Why Linux – What’s the Benefits?.

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