On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:25:37 -0500
Brian Sammon wrote:
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
...
> Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine that doesn't involve
> buying or borrowing (or "borrowing") a copy of OSX? Is it easier to install
> linux
On 2014-12-05 19:18, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* EFI
>>> capable, but doesn't work in quite the way we'd normally expect.
IIRC Apple's EFI is (was) not exactly what now is known as UEFI
"standard". None of my Mac Minis did work with the Debia
On 12/05/2014 10:55 AM, Brian Sammon wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 +
Steve McIntyre wrote:
Hi Brian,
You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and
I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to
play with. To the best of my knowledge, the M
Brian wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 +
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and
>> I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to
>> play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've g
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 +
Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and
> I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to
> play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is*
> EFI capable
Brian wrote:
>I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
>
>I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success,
>but
>when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard drive.
>
>Googling finds me various pages about instal
On 12/05/2014 08:32 AM, Brian Sammon wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800
> Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>
>> As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI.
>
> I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure?
If the Debian installer has installed grub-pc(-*) package then the
in
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:39:08 -0800
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> As mentioned earlier, your machine is currently not using EFI.
I missed that -- and how do I know that for sure?
Is it possible that it's trying to use EFI, but my debian install is trying to
do something not-EFI-compatible, and that's
On 12/04/2014 09:25 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems.
This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to
educate myself on how MBRs work on EFI machines.
Questions such as:
When it says
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:34:22 -0800
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Installing to the MBR should fix your booting problems.
This brings to mind another question/issue: I need to educate myself on how
MBRs work on EFI machines.
Questions such as:
When it says it's installing Grub to the MBR, is it really
On 12/04/2014 01:29 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014
14:46:09 -0500
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
>>> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
>>> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
>>> success, but when it came time to ejec
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 08:01:48 +0900
Joel Rees wrote:
> Can we conclude that you have read this page
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel
I have read this page, and I'm hoping to add a "If you don't have OSX" section
to it, once I figure out what to add.
> and followed appropriate links,
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Brian Sammon
wrote:
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
>
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success,
> but
> when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard drive.
>
>
On 12/04/2014 04:29 PM, Brian Sammon wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500
Stefan Monnier wrote:
I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, D
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:46:09 -0500
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
> > I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
> > success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
> > boot from the hard
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require
> > OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware
> > it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)
> >
> > Any pointers/suggestions?
>
> I will
On 04/12/14 21:30, Brian Sammon wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>
>>> Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require
>>> OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware
>>> it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:46:22 +0100
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Two particular subtasks that I may need to do that seem to require
> > OSX: 1) "Blessing" a partition 2) Checking what version of firmware
> > it has (some versions have BIOS compatibility)
> >
> > Any pointers/suggestions?
>
> I will
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
> success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
> boot from the hard drive.
[...]
> Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this mach
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:25:37PM -0500, Brian Sammon wrote:
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
>
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported success,
> but
> when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't boot from the hard
Hello,
On 04/12/14 19:25, Brian Sammon wrote:
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been
> wiped.
>
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
> success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
> boot from the hard drive.
I would
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