Is there Linux Live USB that works with Snow Leopard macbook pro from 2010 april
- by rofrol
Hello, I was searching for a long time a Linux Live USB that I can boot my macbook pro from. Is there such distro so I can install it on Snow Leopard or Windows 7?
UPDATE
I've found this:
  "isohybrid" CD images (..) are special in that as well as
  the normal CD-based ISO9660 filesystem
  they also contain a valid-looking
  DOS-style partition table. Thus, if
  you simply copy one of these images
  raw to a USB stick a normal PC BIOS
  will boot the image directly. (...)
  Finally: I'd like to add support into
  xorriso for creating the nasty HFS
  hybrid images that are needed for
  booting Macs. The code that does this
  in cdrkit is probably some of the
  worst that I've ever worked with, and
  I'd like to get away from it. If only
  Apple hadn't stupidly built their
  proprietary platform around this shit
  and had used open standards instead
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