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However, all 2006 iMacs have a 32 bit EFI, so 64 bit operating systems can not be EFI booted from these Macs.

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If your 2006 iMac has a 64 bit processor, then you might be able to install the current release of Xubuntu, which currently requires less RAM. Ultimately, 4 GB of RAM may be installed, but not all RAM in excess of 3 GB can be used due to the possibility of memory "overlap". The net result is that at least 3 GB of RAM should be fully accessible, while when 4 GB of RAM installed, ~700 MB of of the RAM is overlapping critical system functions, making it non-addressable by the system. While some models can accept 4 GiB of RAM, not all of this RAM can be accessed. None of the 2006 iMac models meet all of these requirements. The current 20.04 LTS release of Ubuntu has the following in the list of system requirements: However, after putting it back in the iMac, it is not able to boot. I have removed a hard drive from my 2006 iMac and installed Ubuntu on it from another computer. The body of this question is given below. Kaumba, which is titled Booting Linux on an 2006 iMac. This answer actually pertains to a this question and the closed question by mandesi c. beside the memory capacity of the machine is limited. If you are looking for pure 64 bit computing from the core duo. It boots my iMac at holding the option key. I know, I just piked another up at a Good. Since the original issue was, no internal CDROM, an external works just fine. I have tried booting with 20 differing linux packages and 17 of them have no clue what CDrom "type" I'm using and refuse to boot at all. Without special features of the "soft bios", that is, no Bios Chip on the motherboard the iMac will only boot with certain linux loaders that handle EFI booting properly. You essentially have a machine with two 32bit processors. I have and early intel iMac that also has the intel core Duo (two cores but not much shared between the two.

first off, I understand the Box in question. I think what the issue is here is the EFI intel booting.

#UBANTU ON MACBOOK INTEL CORE 2 DUO HOW TO#

Pick and download a 32bit version of Ubuntu, the Mac documentation pages say going with the latest version should be a good move, yet pick which one works best on your iMac, this may require trial and error.įollow the standard How to create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu using the Ubuntu ISO you downloaded above.īoot the iMac with the USB stick inserted, if the iMac does not boot into the Ubuntu installer you may need to reboot and hold down the "option" key, and then selcted the USB stick to continue booting into the Ubuntu installer. The standard version meaning a 32bit version. If you have a Core2 Duo Mac (as oppossed to the Core Duo), it is capable of using the AMD64 (64bit) CD otherwise you have to use the standard version.

However since your iMac is a Core Duo it will need a 32bit Ubuntu as noted on Ubuntu's Mac Community documentation. Since your iMac is an intel one, you can use a standard Ubuntu ISO built for any x86 PC. Ubuntu for Intel Macs and additionally the Ubuntu Intel Mac CommunityHelpPages looks to be loaded with lots of resources that you might find helpful. You should checkout a Ubuntu instructions for Intel Macs, so no need to worry about a BIOS your running EFI. Looks like you have all you will need already, you were just missing the following bits of information.

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So I ask, what would you do? The only thing is it should not involve any money (I know Mac software is rarely free) which also excludes getting any Mac OS unless I can use a free macos.img for VM or restore the original Mac for free.

So other than finding someone that has a Mac I have no solution.

Which makes me think that the scenario where someone like me has Mac hardware but no Mac OS is extremely rare.

I can't find much software on Linux/Windows to substitute to those tools, for example among others converting an.

So assuming blindly that the Mac hardware/firmware works normally, I don't have any Mac OS to use any of the tools that I found on different tutorials for building a bootable drive for Macs.

When I start the machine and press Option, the first and only thing I see is an old corrupted Windows XP partition and not a single option or additional information.

There is no BIOS on Macs, so I can't set boot settings or even see if it detects my USB drive.

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No CD means the only boot drive I could use is USB.

This PC with Ubuntu 12.04 and an old Windows Vista partition.

An empty PC (17" Intel iMac) with broken CD drive.