11-07-2021, 07:43 AM
I really hate to be negative about your chances of getting any version of Lite installed on this machine. Unfortunately there are a number of roadblocks to your desires that I can see:
That said, if you are intent on continuing your quest (and you will certainly learn a lot by doing so!) you may be able to make use of the following ideas:
I regret I can't offer more assistance. I can only wish you all the best in your endeavour, and a request that if you succeed that you attempt to document how you did it (be it in a post here or elsewhere).
- based on a an hour or so's googling, installing _any_ Linux distro on intel Mac hardware (especially older Macbooks) requires tenacity, ingenuity, resourcefulness and a great deal of google-fu as easily followed recipes for success appear few and far between and Apple didn't make it easy to do
- as far as I can see almost no-one in the Lite community, least of all the developers, has much experience installing _any_ Linux distro on Macs
- prior to Lite 4, no Lite UEFI install image (and there were some - see this thread) supported 32bit UEFI for either 32bit or 64bit Lite installs (and 32bit was dropped for Lite 4)
That said, if you are intent on continuing your quest (and you will certainly learn a lot by doing so!) you may be able to make use of the following ideas:
- first, find a way to install some other Linux distro for which you can find a reported successfull install with the associated "how it was done" narrative (I've seen references to Mint 17 and Ubuntu 16.04, for example and I'm sure there are others)
- once you have some Linux distro running on the machine, you then have a much better chance of being able to successfully install (and maintain) your preferred Linux distro
- I came across references to using rEFIt as a UEFI bootloader of which rEFInd is a maintained fork; the rEFInd website also has an extensive collection of UEFI related information
- it may be more practical to do much of the installation work with the SSD connected to another machine already running Linux, though some of the formatting may still be best done using MacOS on the machine itself
I regret I can't offer more assistance. I can only wish you all the best in your endeavour, and a request that if you succeed that you attempt to document how you did it (be it in a post here or elsewhere).