How do i know if im using linux or unix on mac os how to#

How do i know if im using linux or unix on mac os how to#

See How to use macOS Recovery for reference - but the relevant steps are below: macOS / OS X Internet Recovery It sounds like you don't have a backup of your original OS X setup, and since you also likely don't have the Recovery partition, you can reinstall in the following way from scratch (assuming you have a relatively recent machine): Here is what it looks like with my flashdrive plugged in when I choose where to boot from. If you need any more information I'll gladly give it. P.s like I said earlier I have a windows 8.1 PC, so I can use that to help fix it if necessary I just really need my OSX back. I'm really not experienced with Ubuntu and I really don't want to have to keep Linux, so please if anyone can help me I would appreciate it. I can boot from the flash drive and get this. I get this screen every time I boot from the hard drive then get stuck at a blank (looks terminal-ish) screen which doesn't load. It then started to install and I must have somehow clicked install onto the hard drive because now both my hard drive and my flash drive are Ubuntu (both recognized as 'windows' in the boot screen) and I really need to get my Mac OSX back. I plugged it into my Mac OSX, rebooted, held the option key, and booted from the flash drive (it recognized it as 'windows' by the way). I burned Ubuntu onto the flash drive on my desktop PC (windows 8.1) with universal USB installer, I believe.

I installed Ubuntu onto a flashdrive hoping to be able to dual boot Linux/OSX.