I've had an old Macbook Pro laying around for years. A relative gave it to me and asked me to fix it. She neglected to give a me a power supply and after repeated requests we both forgot about it. Was rummaging in my computer storage closet and decided to buy a supply and see what the story was. Got the "?" screen at boot. Tried a few things and decided the HD was dead. Rummaged around and found a drive, opened up the computer and NO Hard Drive! THE HD I had had Win XP istalled so I wiped it and tried to install 19.04 -- Its been days and I have not made much progress. The computer is a Macbook PRO from mid 2007. Silver lit keyboard, very attractive.
I'm using a USB with UNbootlin ubuntu 19.04 64 bit on it. I can boot the live version if I use the safe graphics mode only. I have installed and reinstalled a number of times, always shows "Ubuntu" then goes to a black screen flashing cursor. I've read all kinds of directions, have tried resetting Grub partition info, created a EFI partition and no luck.
Can someone point me to step by step directions on how to install when you do not have a hd with OS on it? I have ZERO experiance wiht Apple products, just want to use this as a laptop in my bedroom for occasional use. Honestly it should not be this hard.
I'm using a USB with UNbootlin ubuntu 19.04 64 bit on it. I can boot the live version if I use the safe graphics mode only. I have installed and reinstalled a number of times, always shows "Ubuntu" then goes to a black screen flashing cursor. I've read all kinds of directions, have tried resetting Grub partition info, created a EFI partition and no luck.
Can someone point me to step by step directions on how to install when you do not have a hd with OS on it? I have ZERO experiance wiht Apple products, just want to use this as a laptop in my bedroom for occasional use. Honestly it should not be this hard.