I was recently having severe windows problems so i installed ubuntu 9.04 because i had a disk they mailed me years ago. I installed it onto a different partition on my hardrive and then deleted the windows partition and expanded the ubuntu partition to fill the entire hard drive so to get rid of the problem partiton.
I'm trying to set up dual-boot on my MacBook Pro, and have run into some questions. I used Disk Utility to allocate some free space for Ubuntu, and now I'm in the Ubuntu installer's partitioner.
There are already 3 partitions on my disk. One is EFI, one is for Mac OS X, and one is I think for recovery. I want to make a partition for Ubuntu and a swap partition.
I am having a hard time trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS onto my desktop PC (Compaq Presario 061 with BIOS Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.14, 1/17/2006), which currently runs Win 7.
I have backed up everything on the PC nto an external hard drive just in case things go wrong.
Here is what I have done so far:
1) On a macbook pro I used the "disk utility" program to mount the ubuntu iso im
Hi all,
I need some advice on removing Ubuntu from my macbook. I have OS X Mountain Lion, Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed and would like to keep just OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 7. I use rEFIt to boot and would like to remove that as well.
I downloaded Ubuntu .iso file from ubuntu.com and wanted to make a bootable USB stick from my MacBook Pro, I use OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
I followed those instructions:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx
When I did do the "sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.img of=/dev/rdiskN bs=1m" command, in 88 seconds it said "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.
I can't guarantee it will work for everyone but it worked for me and I thought I would share.
Keep in mind, this is only tested for a single boot of 13.04, not a dual boot with mac. Also, I only found it to work through the daily build of 13.04 on DVD and not USB. This came about by several different install combos, tinkering, etc to get Ubuntu to install, much less get the wifi working.
My windows vista crashed and wouldn't accept a retrieval so I installed ubuntu 12.04 that I had on disk. I keep getting a message 'Disk Utility' A hard disk is failing. :mad: (Running Ubuntu off a 'CD')
I have two drives in my system drive 'C' the main drive and drive 'D' how do I format them so as I can install Ubuntu permanently? :D
Regards
Evertonmint
I erased the SSD drive in my macbook and was reinstalling lion when it failed about 75% through the install. Now in the disk utility, sometimes I see the SSD drive and sometimes I boot and it's not there but I can never erase or partition it. I get an "error 6988 couldnt unmount disk".
When I attempt to run fdisk to correct the MBR, it doesn't do anything.
I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 on my Macbook(which is a Mid 2007 model with Intel Core 2 dual and currently running Lion).
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