How to Install Linux on old MacBook 2.1

[MacBook Pro 2012 User]

Hey,
I have an MacBook 2.1 (White) with a broken CD Drive.
macOS is not installed on this MacBook (but it is possible to install macOS).
I'd like to use Linux because newer versions of Chrome, etc., don't working the old macOS Version.

My idea was to install Linux Mint Xfce on this Mac. I created a Boot Stick with 32bit UEFI (https://www.mesom.de/efi32boot/index.html). Everything’s worked, but when I try to install Mint on the Hard Disk (a cheap Intenso SSD with 240GB), the installer don’t find the Hard Disk.
Can you help me?

 

[BrianBaughn]

Just to clarify…the MacBook still has Lion on the SSD?

 

[MacBook Pro 2012 User]

Just to clarify…the MacBook still has Lion on the SSD?

Sorry. No the SSD is completely empty. But I can install macOS Snow Leopard or Lion.

 

[BrianBaughn]

So a Lion USB installer sees the drive? Did you use the bootable USB macOS installer to erase the drive? What type of format is on the blank SSD?