Step 1: Create a temp directory to get download and run kernel updates.
DOWNLOADING UBUNTU ON A MAC INSTALL
But I'm pretty sure you have an Intel machine. If you follow the guide to the letter you should be able to apply the patch I have submitted to the bcm-kernel-source package and get it to compile and install correctly.
In case you sport an older Mac computer (with PowerPC), you can grab the PowerPC images from the mirrors. I have to shut it down and remove the Ubuntu SSD for my El cap SSD to work. If you have a recent MAC with an Intel CPU (anything since 2006), you should just simply grab the proper (32 or 64-bit) version and that's it. I manage to install the OS onto a seperate SSD, but when the program installs and asks to restart it doesn't boot up and my system just kind of turns on an off constantly. To see download Ubuntu 18.04 desktop-amd64 ISO an dburned it to the disc. At the time of writing, the current version of Ubuntu is 14.04 LTS which was released in April 2014. In the dropdown menu, under Choose your flavour, ensure that you select 64-bit Mac (AMD64) then click the Download button.
DOWNLOADING UBUNTU ON A MAC PRO
My next step is wanting to installing / dual boot the Mac Pro into Ubuntu if this is possible. Open a web browser and navigate to the Ubuntu download page. When installing Ubuntu Linux on an Intel-based Macintosh, most people. It's a blue badge in the upper-left corner of the VirtualBox window. Thus, you may need to deviate from these instructions on modern computers. Double-click (or click once on a Mac) the VirtualBox app icon. If you don't already have VirtualBox installed on your Windows or Mac computer, you'll need to install it before proceeding. Here you will find links to VirtualBox binaries and its source code. I've bought it cheap and upgraded it to 2.1 and put a host of upgrades into it including, 32GB RAM, 2x X5365 Xeon Processors and a 48GB Sandisk SSD with El Capitan installed. Install VirtualBox if you haven't yet done so. I'm relatively new to the world of apple, but I recently took the plunge and get a Macbook Pro 2017 and more recently because of the aeshetics and the way they worked a bought a old Mac Pro 1.1 off ebay as I needed a desktop system to complement my setup.