How to Install Ubuntu on Macbook Air Dual

1.For there are too many software that can be used in ubuntu not in OSX so I decided to install ubuntu on my macbook air

  • I have try the mac version ubuntu and it do not work
  • and the origin version for windows is work on mac

2.First use Unetbootin to create a usb bootable ubnutu on mac

  • There are two ways to finish this
  • The first is(I do not succeed in this)
    • diskutil list
      • show the disk that is mounted on your mac
    • then insert the usb
    • run diskutil list again
      • and determine the device node assigned to the usb like disks1s2
    • then diskutil unmountDisk /disks1s2
    • after that sudo dd if=/path/to/ubuntu.img.dmg of=/dev/disks1s2 bs=2m
      • to create the bootable usb ubuntu
      • and the bs is the I/O speed and the max is 2m
    • It may cost some time to complete
    • finally run eject /dev/disks1s2
  • The second is
    • use the Unetbootin to create the bootable usb directly

3.Then we need the split the disk

  • search Disk Utility
  • open it and get to the partition
  • click ‘+’ to create a partition of 40 GB
    • partition it in the MS-DOS(FAT)
  • and click ‘+’ again to create a patition of 2 GB
    • make the swap sizeMS-DOS(FAT)
    • name the partition “swap”
    • restart the computer and press alt/option key when starting

install ubuntu

  • when being asked for installation type
    • choose something else to partition by ourselves
    • select ext4 and mount / in the 40GB disk
    • select swap area for the swap disk
  • and nothing else should be difficult

after installing ubuntu successfully on mac you should do

  • sudo apt-get install macfanctld to enable the fan and sensor
  • sudo apt-get install update && sudo apt-get upgrade to update the system and get wifi work(you may not get wifi work at the first time you start the system, so get a wired network and upgrade the system)
  • sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer to install the adobe player
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linrunner/tlp
    • sudo apt-get update
    • sudo apt-get install tlp tlp-rdw
    • sudo tlp start
    • to improve battery life and reduce overhearting

some configuration of ubuntu

  • first is the system mointer
    • conky
    • install conky manager and you can get lots of theme of it
    • and I have to say thats really cool
    • sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
    • sudo apt-get update
    • sudo apt-get install conky-manager
  • second is the byobu terminal
    • sudo apt-get install byobu
    • and set the start up script in the /use/bin/byobu
    • and the terminal will start up in byobu
    • fn + F2 to create a new terminal
    • fn + F3 and fn + F4 to switch the terminal
  • and tilda, guake will be good choice of terminal
    • press F12 can drop down the guake terminal

if there is error

  • if face xinit: server error
    • run sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg
    • and it may help
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