Did you make sure you switched in to the Downloads/ dir before running:
sudo dd if=linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
Otherwise you have to provide the full path to the ISO
That’s the part that’s confusing to me. How to I do that?
when you open a terminal
cd Downloads
then you run the command.
So I did cd downloads and got:
bash cd: downloads: No such file or directory
I strung them together and got:
cd downloads sudo dd if=linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
bash: cd: too many arguments
I did sudo cd downloads and got:
sudo: cd: command not found
Downloads, case sensitive.
cd Downloads
Thank you. Here’s what I got:
sudo dd if=linuxmint-21-cinnamon-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress
2443182080 bytes (2.4 GB, 2.3 GiB) copied, 349 s, 7.0 MB/s
2335+1 records in
2335+1 records out
2449342464 bytes (2.4 GB, 2.3 GiB) copied, 515.731 s, 4.7 MB/s
Done. Now place it in your Mac and use it’s boot from USB procedures of which i know nothing of other then you may be presented with 3 options, 2 of which will should be UEFI .
Research it for your particular model.
1 Like
I have Linux Mint on the Mac! Thank you so much for your help! You helped me while allowing me learn a few things. I have a LOT more to learn.
Congratulations!
That’s what we’re here for.
1 Like
@MrDeplorableUSA, just wanted to say how much I appreciate the way you help Tee out! 
Would you explain what the issue is with the USB not working? Or just what was the difficulty Tee experienced?
1 Like
@Tee, 
I love that you did not give up! I can see you getting good at Linux quickly.
So happy to see your successful installation! 
1 Like
On the Mac it was likely not recognizing the working USB since it was not first formatted to a mac format so etcher could change it to fat32 and perform the job.
I can not vouch for that since I don’t have a Mac but that seems to be the consensus from the setting up USBs on the Mac side.
1 Like
Thanks! I was close to throwing in the towel, only because getting time to focus on it was hard and sometimes I lost track of where I was with the gaps in free time. I’m really glad for wonderful help that gave me a solution!
I’ve had fun setting things up the way I want, found solutions on my own to a few hiccups.
Tomorrow, schedule allowing, I’m getting on to switching the last machine over to Linux.
2 Likes
In one of my reformatting attempts, I did format to a Mac without success. I wonder if it helped that I switched USBs and used the solution you gave me. Either way,
I’m so glad it’s done! Have had fun setting things up and solving a few hiccups on my own. Still have a lot to learn.
2 Likes
So, not having a Mac OS to play with we went another route.
Though from this Gab post it may make some sense of why it wasn’t working for you on Mac OS either:
1 Like
That makes sense. I’m so glad to be getting away from MacOS and from Microsoft.
1 Like
Well…third machine comes up with a black screen at restart that never changes. I’m not done trying to figure it out…
Reinstalling Mac Os and starting from scratch. I’m surprised I can do this since I had the option to get rid of anything but Linux.
That certainly is interesting. My Mac is so old, I could not use any of the popular installer making apps. Luckily I was able to do that from my Chromebook then used ChromdOS recovery extension to make the installation USB to replace Chrome with Linux (Kind of funny now I think about it 
) before converting my Mac.