MAC Mini Server Installation Centos6.5

Recently the unit has this demand, because Mac Mini looks good and stable, started a few, but in the deployment environment and software debugging, Mac OS is really bad use ah ... So plan to remove the OS as a whole and install the pure Centos6.5. On-line grilled a bunch of posts, oneself also made the following summary, for knowledge reserves.

1. Make USB drive boot:

Can follow the windows to make a USB flash drive, online methods have a lot of, I am a U disk into the Mac Mini, run DD command made, reference: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/ Create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx

diskutil List

 diskutil UNMOUNTDISK/DEV/DISKN 
 
  

sudo dd if=/path/to/downloaded.iso of=/dev/rdiskn bs=1m
2.U Disk Installation:
   Mac Mini reboot, long press option (the normal keyboard is Alt key, Apple keyboard is option), go to the Select Start screen;
   Select the USB flash drive installation, when the first installation screen pops up (install or Update ...) ), press the TAB key, add "Noapic" after the following command, press ENTER to continue, specific reference: Http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72809/how-to-install-centos-6-4-on-mac-mini; https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7503;
   The installation process directly formats Mac OS x on the same disk as the online tutorials (Baidu Encyclopedia).
   Note: I installed the previous several times, all choose Custom Install, their own set/,/boot, but after installation has been prompted "no bootable device--insert boot disk and press any key", also do not know what reason, then I will all the disk format, select Full install, automatic partition, unexpectedly installed successfully ...

MAC Mini Server Installation Centos6.5