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How to install Ubuntu on a Mac running OS X Lion?

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Mar 15, 202629149 views
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Anyone tried to install Ubuntu dual-booting on Mac OS X Lion 10.7? I know it is doable with Leopard and Snow Leopard. I heard that the Ubuntu installer will write the first 446 bytes from the beginning of the HDD, and that it is a little bit risky for the bootloader. So it would be great if anyone …

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As far as I'm aware, you are not able to install Ubuntu via boot camp on Lion... However, you can install a Windows Machine then boot camp that to run Ubuntu. But personally, I'd just run it in a virtual machine (as @Johnsyweb has said). I may be wr…

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