Many times cracking open something like a MacBook Air to grab a hard drive requires special tools and adapters which may not be readily available. The application is available in English and is partially translated into Spanish and Traditional Chinese. It requires a single USB drive formatted as FAT with at least 2 GB free recommended. This is the Mac Linux USB Loader, a tool allowing you to take an ISO of a Linux distribution and make it boot using EFI. Triple boot on a Mac with OSX, Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Abstract As a network and security architect, I sometimes need to test security and network policies using different OS. The first option I am going to go walk through is imaging a Mac with a Live Linux bootable USB. I am planning on doing several blog posts about different ways to image a Mac.ĭepending on the situation, some may work, some may not, but I just wanted to throw some options out in the Google soup mix. No firewire ports for target disk mode, no easy way to remove the hard drive, or if the the hard drive is removed, you don't have the specific adapter needed to connect your write blocker to the drive.Īnd of course, encryption. When encountering Macs, its seems like there is always a challenge.
One thing I've learned when it's comes to imaging Macs is it's good to have options.
