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I have an old MacBook (model A1342, year 2009) with Ubuntu 18.04 on it. NO MacOSx. I want to install Debian (8 or 9) for which said computer comfortably fulfills the minimum tech specs (barely so with Ubuntu 18.04). So far I have made several bootable USBs (with sudo dd) with different packages of Debian 9 (have yet to try Debian 8), but the computer never recognizes them, much less boots from them. I'm about to make another bootable USB with UNetbootin, let's see how I fare. However, is there any advice or experience you could share on how to change Linux distro on a Mac computer?

Many thanks for your help!

user7401887
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what command did you use to make the bootable usb? If, say, you mounted the usb as /dev/sdb, the command should be

$ sudo dd if=your_debian_file.iso /dev/sdb

[ just checking... ] If you did so, can you try the usb on another computer, see if it boots? [ to make sure there is nothing wrong with the usb you're using ]

vuvu
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