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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1815188" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Couple of thoughts. If your Mac is running Mojave, then your internal drive is formatted APFS and so the typical partition software probably won't work because APFS is relatively new. I don't even know if a drive can be partitioned for APFS and HFS+ on the same device. I guess it can because Bootcamp can still run Windows as a dual boot, but as I said, the typical Ubuntu installer won't know about APFS at all. Those installers assume you want to put Ubuntu or whatever on a PC that has NTFS format. </p><p></p><p>In addition, Windows uses a Master Boot Record to start with, but macOS does not, so just letting the Ubuntu installer do it's thing will most likely end up in an un-bootable machine.</p><p></p><p>So stick to the steps in the videos to manually partition, and if I were you, I'd be looking for one that specifically refers to Mojave and APFS.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: I correct one spellcheck error and I would also like to add that Ubuntu in Parallels is a pretty good way to run it and not muck with dual boot. I have that here, don't use it much because I prefer macOS, but it does run well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1815188, member: 396914"] Couple of thoughts. If your Mac is running Mojave, then your internal drive is formatted APFS and so the typical partition software probably won't work because APFS is relatively new. I don't even know if a drive can be partitioned for APFS and HFS+ on the same device. I guess it can because Bootcamp can still run Windows as a dual boot, but as I said, the typical Ubuntu installer won't know about APFS at all. Those installers assume you want to put Ubuntu or whatever on a PC that has NTFS format. In addition, Windows uses a Master Boot Record to start with, but macOS does not, so just letting the Ubuntu installer do it's thing will most likely end up in an un-bootable machine. So stick to the steps in the videos to manually partition, and if I were you, I'd be looking for one that specifically refers to Mojave and APFS. EDIT: I correct one spellcheck error and I would also like to add that Ubuntu in Parallels is a pretty good way to run it and not muck with dual boot. I have that here, don't use it much because I prefer macOS, but it does run well. [/QUOTE]
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