USB Live Linux on Mac

Create an UEFI Live Linux USB

Use Mac Linux USB Loader to turn a FAT32 USB drive to a UEFI Live Linux system.

Use the same software, or the steps in this guide to build files for persistence (useful if you want to keep additional driver and software packages and custom settings after reboot). You can only create at most 4GB of persistence storage with the FAT32 USB drive.

Get WiFi working

To get the wifi driver working, use a thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor to get the Mac connected to the Internet. Get the following apt packages to get the wifi device working.

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

More information is available in this reference. The reference also contains instruction to install the driver for those who don't have the thunderbolt to Ethernet adaptor.

Utilize the remaining space on the USB

The remaining space on the UEFI USB Live Linux can't be used unless it is on a partition other than the one that stores the Live Linux file (then while you are on Linux, the partition is shown as a mountable partition). To shrink that Live Linux file partition and subsequently create a partition using the extra space, use a partition editing software of your choice (e.g. gparted on Linux). If you are using the drive on Windows as well, make sure the new partition is the first partition of the USB drive. Otherwise Winodws will not mount it. (Reference)

Use Tips

Tap on touchpad with two fingers simultaneous to emulate mouse right click. Reference
Convert a vmdk file to iso: https://sevenbits.github.io/iso/puredarwin/osx/2015/03/11/convert-to-iso.html


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