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I’ve got a couple of Mac Mini 2,1<\/a>\u00a0that have been sitting idle and forgotten for what seems like years. The 2.0 Ghz unit has 2Gb of RAM, a 120Gb spinning HDD, and a DVD burner.<\/p>\n First thing is to know that you can’t just get any ISO image and write it to USB and install. You’ll need to go old school DVD burning, plus use a special ISO. You’ll want option two from this page<\/a>.\u00a0The most recent mac server version I was able to find was 14.04 LTS.<\/a><\/p>\n After you have the ISO, you can burn it on the Mac Mini with:<\/p>\n Next up, boot the disc holding the Next, get the system up-to-date with:<\/p>\n followed by:<\/p>\n then:<\/p>\n and after about 30 minutes, you should be at Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve got a couple of Mac Mini 2,1\u00a0that have been sitting idle and forgotten for what seems like years. The 2.0 Ghz unit has 2Gb of RAM, a 120Gb spinning HDD, and a DVD burner. First thing is to know that you can’t just get any ISO image and write it to USB and install. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raoulwegat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}hdiutil burn\u00a0ubuntu-14.04.5-desktop-amd64+mac.iso<\/code><\/p>\nc<\/code>\u00a0key, then run through the install after which you should reboot.<\/p>\nsudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/code><\/p>\nsudo reboot<\/code><\/p>\nsudo do-release-upgrade<\/code><\/p>\n