If you have neither, the only option is to use the onboard wireless adapter. For more information, see Android tethering. In case you use a Thunderbolt ethernet adapter, you may have to power on the machine with the adapter plugged in for it to be picked up by the system.Īnother easy option is to use USB tethering with an Android device.
Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters and USB-to-Ethernet adapters are usually picked up automatically. You may wish to change this for a more legible font, an example of which is With the Arch installation media on a flash drive, you can boot it by holding down the Alt (or Option) key while your Mac starts up, and then selecting the applicable EFI Boot option when the Apple boot manager appears.Īs this model of notebook has a high DPI display, the console font displayed will be extremely small and depending on your preferences is likely to be uncomfortable to use. Please refer to the official Installation guide for more detailed instructions, as the following content mainly describes deviations from those instructions that are specific to this MacBook model.Īs this Mac model does not include a CD or DVD drive, you may wish to copy the Arch installation media onto a USB flash drive. Installation is similar to any other standard laptop. Please keep in mind that the volume of the startup sound can only be modified reliably in OS X. Just boot in OS X, mute your system sound and reboot again to the Arch Linux Installation media. Note: If you plan to remove OS X, it is advisable to disable the MacBook startup sound before proceeding with partitioning.
If you plan on keeping OS X for the purpose of dual booting, you need to manually shrink the main OS X HFS+/APFS partition from within OS X's Disk Utility program. Macintosh HD: an APFS container partition containing volumes for Apple's EFI loaders, the macOS system/user files, the recovery image and for swap in macOS.Īs a general rule, partitioning is no different from any other hardware that Arch Linux can be installed on.
Recovery HD: a secondary HFS+ partition containing utilities for restoring backups, formatting and re-installing OS X, typically booted by holding Cmd+r while your MacBook is starting upįor 2013/2014 MacBooks running macOS 10.13 or later, the partition layout is simpler:.Macintosh HD: the main partition containing your OS X installation, formatted using HFS+.For MacBooks running OS X versions up to and including 10.12, the partition layout will typically look like this: MacBooks are partitioned using the GPT scheme by default. However, if you plan to remove OS X completely, make backups of these files, which you will need in Linux for adjusting the color profile: It is advisable to keep OS X installed, because MacBook firmware updates can only be installed using OS X. Note: If you uninstalled OS X or want to reinstall it, Apple has great instructions.
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