Installing Ubuntu onto a MacMini1,1 is really hard!

Sunday, 2015-10-11 11:36 UTC

So installing Ubuntu onto an 2006 Mac Mini (macmini1,1) is really hard, mainly down the bugs in EFI preventing booting of USB sticks or CD’s that are available for download from Ubuntu and this Mini not 64 bit CPU but 32 bit!

So things to remember:

This mac mini is x32 and not an x64 CPU! So do download the right image!
Install rEFInd (this is really important)
Follow these instructions to create an USB stick.

So I now have StackStorm installing, which is taking some time on almost decade old system. Later I do plan to do an re-install with the server (instead of desktop version), but at least wireless works out the box, which it did not do last time I tried in 2003 with linux and wireless.