
If you plan on permanently installing Ubuntu on your Mac while keeping the macOS, you need to create one or more volumes specifically for housing the Ubuntu OS.
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How to Install and Dual Boot Linux on a Mac UNetbootin downloads the selected Linux distribution, creates the live Linux install files, creates the bootloader, and copies them to your USB flash drive. Use the Select Macos drop-down menu to select The Type menu should be populated with USB Driveand the Drive should match up to the device name you made a note of earlier when you were formatting the USB flash drive. Make sure Distribution ubuntu selected boot then use the Select Distribution drop-down menu to pick the Linux distribution you want to install on the Macos flash drive. Enter your administrator password and select OK.

I then use that partition to install the Snow Leopard OS on another partition, which will be my OS bootable partition. I had install git alpine linux Snow Leopard. Afterwards, I could boot from the external USB drive, which was a bit slow but definitely useable. I never modified my primary internal hard drive in this process. Set up a hard drive that is bootable to either OS X I did this as an experiment, so I set up the dual boot on an external USB drive.
