I'm not optimistic but if you can provide details of CPU and GPU it *might* be possible. If it's Intel then *maybe* (and that;s a big maybe) generic might work, but if it's a G4 then I doubt it. Time to compost your apples and get some raspberries or potatoes 
I'm not optimistic but if you can provide details of CPU and GPU it *might* be possible. If it's Intel then *maybe* (and that;s a big maybe) generic might work, but if it's a G4 then I doubt it. Time to compost your apples and get some raspberries or potatoes
hahahahaa,
Its Intel i5 with Intel HD Graphics 3000 processor
You could TRY generic Here but I don't hold out much hope as Apple are renowned for being sympathetic to open source
You could TRY generic Here but I don't hold out much hope as Apple are renowned for being sympathetic to open source
I have tried the generic build but I can not get the Mac Mini to boot from USB key. The Mac just hangs on the boot option screen when selecting the USB device.
I don't want to disappoint you - BUT I think you are *stuffed* Someone might have a solution but don't hold your breath. Sorry.
Older EFI firmware mac's are crap at USB booting. It's easier to burn an Ubunto ISO to CDROM and boot from that, and do a manual install of LE to the internal drive. It's years since I did one, but basically you need to create a GPT partition scheme with two EXT4 partitions for boot and storage and then copy the files from the first partition of a "Generic" USB image to the first (boot) partition on the drive. Then install a bootloader (syslinux or grub) and possibly rEFInd as a boot manager.
I had problems with Macminis booting the original .img, i am now just using ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html) for vreating the USB stick
