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Okay, just wondering why it wasn't an issue the first time around then

Adrian, did you change something with network device drivers or anything when updating the CLI script to include the grub installation? I had decided to start from scratch again on this macbook and when booting up from the new MX-CLI from a usb drive, it no longer seems to know about my wireless ...

That was the ticket. Did that yesterday evening and got the OS installed, whole thing took less than five minutes probably. Thanks! BTW I love the color scheming, makes it a lot easier to interpret the CLI

You need to install grub2, that takes 40MB or so. Not everybody needs to install this so I left it out, plus theoretically there are other ways to install like using a UEFI kernel stub install (not with the cli-installer, but I might add that as an option, we might have to edit cli-installer to ...

OK Adrian sorry I have tried to figure out what I'm doing wrong here but can't for the life of me get cli-installer to run without something going wrong with the grub installation using the ESP UEFI option

I'm installing MX 23.6_CLI on a mid-2012 intel macbook pro. I had previously whatever is the ...

Adrian wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 11:00 am

tghuguenin wrote: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:29 am @Adrian Thanks for this! You mentioned the live-usb-maker tool but I can't seem to find it anywhere using the CLI respin. What am I missing?

That's because you need to install it

ah gotcha

@Adrian Thanks for this! You mentioned the live-usb-maker tool but I can't seem to find it anywhere using the CLI respin. What am I missing?

j2mcgreg wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 4:08 pm Welcome to the forum and the better way.

Thanks! I still love macOS but it's fun to mess around with linux a bit and I'm liking MX so far

Hello guys

Way back in 2008, while I was in college, I installed Kubuntu on my then macbook, one of those white plastic ones, can't remember all the specs. Had it dualbooting whatever was current macOS at the time (snow leopard maybe?). Did that for a little while but used macOS as my daily OS and ...