Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi David, Lest we get flamed for "top post"ing, I've rearranged the segments of this discussion to conform to the conventions of debian-users. Look for my reply at the bottom of this email... /-: On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:19 PM, David Harrison wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debi

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 30.07.2012 um 22:19 schrieb David Harrison: I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. If you want to keep OS X installed and just want to have Debian installed, a virtual installation using VirtualBox (is free for Mac also) r

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-CD-1.iso or http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/po

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, 30.07.2012 23:19, David Harrison kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues > on where to start is appreciated. I haven't tried Debian on Mac, but I have installed Ubuntu on MacBook. First you ins

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 30 July 2012 22:19, David Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where > to start is appreciated. > Hi First of all: search the web for debian imac and you'll get a lot of material to study. Second: please be more specific, there are a

installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread David Harrison
Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
I found the ports page and that led me to lots and lots of info. If anyone has some experience with gotchas, I'd appreciate hearing them. Jeff On Wednesday 19 February 2003 5:13 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote: >Next week I'll be picking up a iMac/DVD-RAM/256Mb/20GbHD on which I'd like > to install Debia

Debian on an iMac

2003-02-19 Thread Jeff Elkins
Next week I'll be picking up a iMac/DVD-RAM/256Mb/20GbHD on which I'd like to install Debian Sid to dual-boot with OS 9x. If at all possible, I'd prefer a minimal install that I can enhance with apt-get/dselect, etc. A network install is fine too, since this box will be connected to a fast DSL