APC_Australia_Issue_442_June_2017

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APPLICATIONS
Click here to reveal a menu of apps.
You can drag and drop their icons to the
Dock to pin them there.
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THE DOCK
Elementary’s Dock works in a similar
way to OS X’s — tailor it in System Settings’
Desktop pane.
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THE MENU BAR
Shortcuts to hardware and system
settings up here can also be tailored in the
System Settings’ Desktop pane.
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THE FILES APP
Access your files in this app, including
those in OS X’s volume if FileVault has not
been used.
Genius Tip!
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If Elementary can’t add a boot
loader during its installation,
run rEFInd’s setup process
again within OS X to add the
required entry.location for extra
protection.
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In System Preferences’ Startup
Disk pane, pick the volume
containing OS X and click Restart
to disable rEFInd. To then bring
back rEFInd you’ll need to
reinstall it.
Open Disk Utility, select your hard
drive on the left (not a volume on it)
and click the Partition tab. Select
OS X’s partition and reduce its size
by the amount you want to give to
Elementary. Click Apply > Partition,
then leave the newly free space as it is.
You’re now ready to embark on the
installation process. To do so, follow
the step-by-step guide opposite.
AFTER INSTALLING ELEMENTARY
When the installation finishes,
your Mac will restart straight into
Elementary. But wait: what’s happened
to rEFInd? It’s been supplanted by
Elementary’s own boot loader, but you
can restore it: open the Epiphany web
browser and download the same binary
Zip file as you did earlier. Choose
Applications > Files from the menu bar,
go to the Downloads folder, and then
right-click the Zip file and choose
‘Extract Here’.
Open the newly created refind-bin
folder, then right-click inside the Files
window and choose ‘Open With >
Terminal’. Finally, type ./refindinstall
, press Teturn, then enter
your account password and press
Return again; a series of messages
should appear confirming that rEFInd
is the default boot manager once more.
Finally, restart your Mac and you’ll
find that you’re now able to easily
switch between OS X and Elementary.
IF YOU USE EL CAPITAN OR SIERRA
To install Elementary alongside these
systems, you must temporarily disable
System Integrity Protection. Restart
your Mac and hold Command-R till the
Apple logo appears. When the Recovery
system starts, choose Utilities >
Terminal, type csrutil disable, press
Return and restart the Mac.
After installing the rEFInd boot
manager, you can turn SIP back on;
choose the Apple Recovery option from
the boot manager; in the Recovery
system, pick Utilities > Terminal as
before, but this time type csrutil
enable to re-enable SIP, then restart.
Note: reinstalling rEFInd requires you
to disable SIP first.
When prepping storage for
Elementary, Disk Utility won’t let you
create free space; it insists on creating
a partition you must later delete when
installing Elementary. Select the disk
itself and click Partition. Verify you
have enough free space, then click ‘+’
to add a new partition. Set its format
to FAT32 to make it easier to identify,
and set its size accordingly, then click
Apply and wait for it to be created.
When you reach the ‘Something else’
screen in Elementary’s installer, you’ll
need to delete the FAT32 partition,
then use the resulting free space as
instructed.
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