Let’s start running Asahi Linux installer, open a shell terminal and type the following command: curl | shĪfter download installer bits and then entering your admin password, you will see a screen like this:Īt some point, the installer will display relevant bits of data, e.g. Step 1 - Install Asahi Linux minimal environment Go to Gentoo website and then download Stage3 tarball file (for AArch64 architecture) and copy it over the USB Flash Stick. USB Ethernet Adapter: Used for internet connectivity until we get Wi-Fi adapter working and Wi-Fi configuration utilities installed in our base system.
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#INSTALLING ARCH LINUX MACBOOK PRO HOW TO#
In this tutorial, we will see how we can leverage Asahi installer to do disk partitioning and setup booting process, then how to use Asahi Linux to prepare and install Gentoo Linux, and finally swapping one by the other. So I decided to start my writer story showing you how to install Gentoo Linux in a Macbook Pro 2020 with M1 processor powered by a custom Linux Kernel coming from Asahi Linux project (a project that aims to bring Linux to Apple Silicon Macs).Īt this point, Asahi ships with Arch Linux but there are few unofficial installing guides to get other Linux distributions installed, like Debian or Fedora. Since long time ago I wanted to write my first post in Medium.
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Installing Gentoo Linux in Apple Macbook Pro M1