- #HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP MAC OS#
- #HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP ZIP FILE#
- #HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP UPDATE#
In my case there is a "Macintoch HD" and two "EFI Boot", one is for rEFInd in USB drive, the other is for Grub2 in external SSD. Boot Mac mini and press Option key continuely until you see the Mac Boot Manager. Insert the USB drive and the external SSD to Mac mini, plug a display to Mac mini's HDMI port.
#HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP ZIP FILE#
The rEFInd Boot Manager: Getting rEFIndĮxtract the zip file and create a USB bootable drive with the ISO file. Create rEFInd USB driveĭownload "A USB flash drive image file" from this site. Of course you can set your installation plan manually. The installer detected there is a Windows install in the disk and ask me if I want to install Linux Mint aloneside Windows. For example, I use a 1TB SSD and I set 333GB for Windows, 333GB for Linux and 334GB for an exFAT partition. Same as Windows installation, if you want a partition for data storage, create it before Linux installation. It's useless to set Windows for a VM environment.
#HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP UPDATE#
Don't let it do any Windows update or driver installation. But I suggest you to reserve the space for Linux and (if you want) the data partition.Īfter the installation completed and you see the Windows desktop, shutdown the VM immediately. In this configuration, VBox will set the VM as Macmini8,1(Mac mini 2018), it's just the device you are using!
#HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC MINI WITHOUT BOOTCAMP MAC OS#
When you create a new VM, it may be better if you choose OS type as Mac OS X, OS version as macOS 10.13 High Sierra(64-bit).On Linux you need to unmount the target disk before create the VMDK file and root privilege is required.
Then, the VMDK file is owned by root so you have to run VBox in root to add this VMDK into your VM.