
I forgot to mention a nice program I came across while doing my research for this project. Its called rEFIt. It allows me to start up the computer and to load up other operating systems either from USB or DVD.
I installed rEFIt and then put in a USB that I was going to use to boot the OS.
That didn’t work.
So I decided to try a Live DVD instead. That didn’t work either and I started to wonder if it would matter whether or not the disk image was of 32 bit or 64 bit Linux.
I tried to burn a 64 bit version of Linux Mint 13 and got an error message about a stupid laser, then I tried it again and again.
This became annoying to me so I left it alone to cool off until the next day and tried it again.
Failure.
Ok, that’s it!!! I’m gonna use another PC to burn the .iso file to DVD.
Success!
I then turned on the Mac Pro, put the DVD into the optical drive and then restarted. I was happy to see the rEFIt symbol show up on the screen and then I got the option to run Mac or Linux. So I chose Linux like mom’s choose Jiff and it started to load up. I had the option of installing Linux Mint 13 Mate edition or to just try it without installing. I chose the latter as I wasn’t ready just yet to commit to the install and I really wasn’t sure as I mentioned here whether or not I would put it onto a separate drive.
Here’s what I ended up with:

Beautiful isn’t it!!!!
I started opening up different files such as PDF’s, and videos and I liked the fact that the only issue I came across was that I wasn’t able to get any sound. That was a bummer indeed. I knew it had nothing to do with not having the right codecs as that was a problem I had experienced in Ubuntu a few years ago and Linux Mint comes with the codecs available by default.
The problem was that I was unable to use the speakers that are built into the Mac Pro, so I ended up connecting some external speakers to the back output port and I was able to get sound.
I still want to get sound directly from the speaker so I will continue to find a way for it to be recognized by Linux.
Like I mentioned above, I did not install Linux Mint onto the Mac Pro I just wanted to give it a trial run.
I know I know I haven’t forgotten to tell you of whether or not I will install Linux Mint onto a separate hard drive but I will.
I promise
Thanks to the following sites that were very helpful in getting me started with this:
http://mindbat.com/2008/01/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-mac-pro/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacPro
http://lifehacker.com/5934942/how-to-dual-boot-linux-on-your-mac-and-take-back-your-powerhouse-apple-hardware
- Linux Mint on a Mac Pro Part one (anthonyvenable110.wordpress.com)
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