Is there Linux Live USB that works with Snow Leopard macbook pro from 2010 april
- by rofrol
Hello, I was searching for a long time a Linux Live USB that I can boot my macbook pro from. Is there such distro so I can install it on Snow Leopard or Windows 7?
UPDATE
I've found this:
"isohybrid" CD images (..) are special in that as well as
the normal CD-based ISO9660 filesystem
they also contain a valid-looking
DOS-style partition table. Thus, if
you simply copy one of these images
raw to a USB stick a normal PC BIOS
will boot the image directly. (...)
Finally: I'd like to add support into
xorriso for creating the nasty HFS
hybrid images that are needed for
booting Macs. The code that does this
in cdrkit is probably some of the
worst that I've ever worked with, and
I'd like to get away from it. If only
Apple hadn't stupidly built their
proprietary platform around this shit
and had used open standards instead
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