Installing Linux on a Mid 2007 Mac

[PlatyTim]

Heyo, so here's the deal.

 

I bought a second-hand mid-2007 Mac, with the OS completely wiped. I tried to reinstall OS X, but it gave me the "Temporarily Unavailable" error, so I figured I would install Linux onto it.

 

I have no idea how to install Linux onto it.

 

I have a USB stick, and I want to install elementaryOS. I am using a Windows computer to burn the ISO onto the USB stick.

 

How do i do this?

[Ataxion]

Download rufus on your windows computer then download your iso of choice then burn it onto the usb stick with rufus after that go to your mac go to the bios change change boot order so usb is the first priority plug in usb with iso then wait for the elementary os to download.

[Ashleyyyy]

7 minutes ago, Ataxion said:

after that go to your mac go to the bios change change boot order so usb is the first priority 

Mac's don't have bios. you need to hold down Option (or Alt on a PC keyboard) and then just select the usb from the boot picker

[Ataxion]

4 hours ago, Ashley said:

Mac's don't have bios. you need to hold down Option (or Alt on a PC keyboard) and then just select the usb from the boot picker

well I have never used a mac so sorry

[18358414]

I've installed Linux on a similar age macbook.  It required me to get a copy of rEFIt (an EFI boot utility) and I had to do some messing about to get Grub to install the 32-bit version -- note that even though it has a 64-bit CPU many macbooks around that time had a 32-bit EFI so you need a 32-bit bootloader if that's the case.