On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:19 PM Charles Curley <
charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
> Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> > 10.11 (El Capitan).
>
> How old? The current version of Mac OS is
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:35 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20)
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> > 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled)
> > Partition, with lots of free space.
>
Jonas Smedegaard composed on 2020-02-13 18:35 (UTC+0100):
> Debian (and Linux in general) supports read-write access to HFS+
> partitions, but it is unreliable. I would expect it to be difficult to
> setup and the result would be unreliable (either because you would end
> up depending on the u
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:28:27 -0700
Charles Curley wrote:
> I didn't ask for my benefit, I asked for your benefit. I will guess
> that you have vetted your hardware on this list.
Sorry, that should be, "... I asked for the OP's benefit. I will guess
that he will vet his hardware on this list."
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:59:07 +0100
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running
> > > OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
> >
> > How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This
> > on a Macbook Air made in mid-2012. ( -> About this
> >
Quoting Charles Curley (2020-02-13 19:56:31)
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
> Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS
> > X 10.11 (El Capitan).
>
> How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This on a
> Macbook Ai
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:03:20 -0500
Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> 10.11 (El Capitan).
How old? The current version of Mac OS is Catalina, 10.15.3. This on a
Macbook Air made in mid-2012. ( -> About this Mac)
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Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-13 18:03:20)
> I am helping a friend install Debian on an older MacBook, running OS X
> 10.11 (El Capitan). It currently has a single 300G HFS Plus (Journaled)
> Partition, with lots of free space.
>
> He wants to keep OS X, and use Buster (or Sid, leading to the n
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