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Download the LiveCD for the version that you want, and 'burn' the ISO to a CD-ROM. Make sure that whatever version you download (15.04 is the latest) that it is the Desktop image. Download Ubuntu Desktop. Insert the CD-ROM. Restart your MacBook. Immediately press and hold the Option key. After a few seconds, the Startup Manager appears. A bit about me I have run this install about a dozen times on my mac, with various different changes along the way. I can finally say I found the perfect way to install Linux, specifically Debian Jessie, on a mac. So now let's actually get started. The below installation was done on my MacBook Pro Retina (15-inch, Late 2013).
This is a fast&furious how-to about installing Debian on a MacBook Pro Retina 15″ bought on January, 2014¹.
Please note that this how-to may become outdated: last update happened on 16 April, 2014.
Please note that this how-to involves dangerous operations: if you choose to follow this how-to your car may burn, your cat may rape your sister and you may buy a windows phone… no warranty!
I choose to install Debian Jessie 8.0 because:
it offers better support to the MBP Retina recent hardware
it isn't actually the stable release but it is pretty stable
Jessie will be freezed on November 5 ('Remember, remember, the fifth of November!') and will become the next stable release in about a year (May 2015)
Installing Debian on MacBook Pro Retina:
download the Debian Jessie testing image (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/) and create a bootable USB (dd if=debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso of=/dev/sdX)
boot your macbook pro holding down command+R
use the disk utility, select the disk on the left panel (for example '251GB APPLE SSD')
on the partition scheme resize the 'Macintosh HD' partition, drag the bottom right edge of the partition scheme up unless you have enought space for Debian (I've reserved only 50 GB to MacOSX because I really don't use it), apply
insert the Debian USB, reboot and hold down the options key (aka alt), remember to connect the LAN adapter before boot to Debian installer (hotplug wont work and wifi needs a non-free firmware), use tg3 as kernel module for ethernet adapter if requested
select the EFI Boot relative to your Debian USB key and continue with the Debian installer (please note that I've selected XFCE on advanced options as Desktop Environment)
when the installer arrives at the partitioning step select to proceed manually
you can create the common partitions (boot, swap, root) but I suggest to setup an encrypted system²
complete the install and reboot, you can't boot Debian at this point, boot MacOS and go further…
download the rEFInd USB bootable version (http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/) and create a bootable USB
insert the rEFInd USB, reboot and hold down the options key (aka alt)
select the EFI Boot relative to your rEFInd USB key, rEFInd should permit to you to boot your Debian
if you can boot your Debian by the rEFInd USB key just return to MacOS and install rEFInd permanently (it's easy and a good tutorial is available on its website)

Complete the installation:
update your apt sources.list to include the non-free packages
install additional packages³: apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree broadcom-sta-dkms
reboot to use wifi and lan adapter
to avoid random controller freeze you need to set a particular kernel boot option, edit /etc/default/grub and add the option libata.force=noncq (es. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet libata.force=noncq') then reboot your system
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro 7Please note that the Intel video card works flawlessly, the Retina display is simply awasome but… but you need to adapt your desktop environment to use it on an high (very high) resolution (2880×1800), stay tuned, I will post about XFCE optimization for high DPI display as soon as I can! actually after some time spent to try to adapt XFCE on high resolution I've choose anyway to reduce the resolution to 1920×1200 mainly because most of the websites are not ready for high resolutions (low res design). This is not an XFCE fault, XFCE works well with high resolution4.
Please note that if you make use of kvm virtual machines you can be really disappointed about poor performance (install system base of Debian may take hours): don't worry, you have to use the ext4 mount options nobarrier or barrier=0. If your vm is already installed simply update its /etc/fstab configuration. It's a little more difficult to apply barrier=0 during installation: Omega speedmaster serial number year.
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when the filesystem is ready (aka when the installation of base system starts) use CTRL+ALT+2 combo to move on the kvm console
type sendkey ctrl-alt-f2 to move on another terminal of the vm
use CTRL+ALT+F1 to comeback on the vm and press enter to start activate the command line
execute the command mount -o remount,barrier=0 /target to disable the ext4 barrier feature
use CTRL+ALT+F2 combo to return on the kvm console
type sendkey ctrl-alt-f1 to return on the usual installation wizard of the vm
use CTRL+ALT+F1 to comeback on the vm and complete the installation
If you want to use an external monitor no problem, just apply your custom setup with the xrandr command, for example:
xrandr --output DP1 --mode 1920x1080 --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1200 --below DP1
Run xrandr without arguments to list your screen(s), their names and their available modes.
Happy hacking!
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2014-03-21 added some note about problems about KVM virtual machines
2014-04-13 added some info about the use of an external monitor
2014-04-16 fixed some typos and fixed last update date 
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create a small ext4 boot partition (1G)
create an encrypted partition in the remaining space
create an LVM group in the encrypted partition
create two logical LVM partitions: the swap partition (double the size of your RAM), the root ext4 partition
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Complete the installation:
update your apt sources.list to include the non-free packages
install additional packages³: apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree broadcom-sta-dkms
reboot to use wifi and lan adapter
to avoid random controller freeze you need to set a particular kernel boot option, edit /etc/default/grub and add the option libata.force=noncq (es. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet libata.force=noncq') then reboot your system
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro 7Please note that the Intel video card works flawlessly, the Retina display is simply awasome but… but you need to adapt your desktop environment to use it on an high (very high) resolution (2880×1800), stay tuned, I will post about XFCE optimization for high DPI display as soon as I can! actually after some time spent to try to adapt XFCE on high resolution I've choose anyway to reduce the resolution to 1920×1200 mainly because most of the websites are not ready for high resolutions (low res design). This is not an XFCE fault, XFCE works well with high resolution4.
Please note that if you make use of kvm virtual machines you can be really disappointed about poor performance (install system base of Debian may take hours): don't worry, you have to use the ext4 mount options nobarrier or barrier=0. If your vm is already installed simply update its /etc/fstab configuration. It's a little more difficult to apply barrier=0 during installation: Omega speedmaster serial number year.
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro 7start Debian installer on the virtual machine and go further
when the filesystem is ready (aka when the installation of base system starts) use CTRL+ALT+2 combo to move on the kvm console
type sendkey ctrl-alt-f2 to move on another terminal of the vm
use CTRL+ALT+F1 to comeback on the vm and press enter to start activate the command line
execute the command mount -o remount,barrier=0 /target to disable the ext4 barrier feature
use CTRL+ALT+F2 combo to return on the kvm console
type sendkey ctrl-alt-f1 to return on the usual installation wizard of the vm
use CTRL+ALT+F1 to comeback on the vm and complete the installation
If you want to use an external monitor no problem, just apply your custom setup with the xrandr command, for example:
xrandr --output DP1 --mode 1920x1080 --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1200 --below DP1
Run xrandr without arguments to list your screen(s), their names and their available modes.
Happy hacking!
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro 22014-03-21 added libata.force=noncq custom kernel option
2014-03-21 added some info about my challenge to use XFCE on Retina
2014-03-21 added some note about problems about KVM virtual machines
2014-04-13 added some info about the use of an external monitor
2014-04-16 fixed some typos and fixed last update date 
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro Free¹lspci of the MacBook Pro Retina 15″ used to produce this tutorial: When marnie was there 1080p download torrent english dub.
Debian Iso Download For Macbook Pro Windows 10²create an encrypted system
create a small ext4 boot partition (1G)
create an encrypted partition in the remaining space
create an LVM group in the encrypted partition
create two logical LVM partitions: the swap partition (double the size of your RAM), the root ext4 partition
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4you need to properly set the XFCE dpi option and you need to rebuild the composer theme because it uses raw images to compose its windows (download source package xfwm4-themes, edit the theme makefile and do some imagemagick tricks, feel free to ask if you are interested)
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