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Installing CentOS on Apple Hardware

Installing recent CentOS versions on Macs is not as straight forward as I wish it to be. I repeatedly had issues even getting the installation media to boot. In this snippet I gather my findings and present a way to successfully install CentOS on a Mac.

Tested using CentOS Stream 8 on a Late 2014 Mac Mini.

1. Preparing the Installation Media

When using the usual methods of creating a bootable USB drive (e.g. by using balenaEtcher) I was greeted by a black screen. In order to successfully get to the CentOS installer I did the following things:

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from csv import DictWriter
from glob import glob
from ofxparse import OfxParser

DATE_FORMAT = "%m/%d/%Y"

def write_csv(statement, out_file):
    print "Writing: " + out_file
    fields = ['date', 'payee', 'debit', 'credit', 'balance']
    with open(out_file, 'w') as f: