Just a heads up I was able to boot a linux kernel by disabling macOS filevault2 encryption. You might want to document that to save others frustration that try to install on a mac.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Colin Williams < colin.williams.seat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried searching for the image name in google because I found the image > on the link I placed above, but didn't hit the 9.2.1 link you show. There > were no results but maybe we populated it's index now. Would it make sense > to have a link to the image descriptions in the FAQ? An image description > page? I was able to find that which brought me to the list. > > https://www.debian.org/CD/faq > > Thanks. My next issue is getting a bootable linux distro to the mac. > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:51:08AM -0800, Colin Williams wrote: >> >It might be good to document that somewhere. Still haven't had any luck >> with >> >the installer but that's similar to all the other distros tried. >> >> There's already text mentioning the special mac images, for example at >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/9.2.1/amd64/iso-cd/ >> >> But that's not currently added for the daily builds. Fixing that right >> now. Maybe I could also make expand it and make it more prominent >> yet. The text we have currently says: >> >> "The mac netinst CD here is a special version of the netinst CD image >> that is targeted specifically at older 64-bit Intel Macintosh >> machines. It will likely work on most other amd64 machines too, but it >> does not contain UEFI boot files that some people need." >> >> -- >> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. >> st...@einval.com >> "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could >> ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike >> Andrews >> >> >
