On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 09:28, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > John Hammack wrote: > > iMac: iMac (24-inch, early 2009), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, > > Mem 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3, OS X El Capitan ver 10.11.6. > > Objective: Install Debian and software development tools (compilers, > > interpreters, and support applications for software development.) > > Progress: I have searched the internet and have not found instructions I > > could follow through to completion. > > Experience: Before retirement (1995) I was doing software development on a > > Hewlett Packard Unix System ((HPUX). I was then comfortable with the Unix > > system, BASH and all. > > Excuse: I am now living in The Villages FL and with all these old folks > > there is no one here with which I can discuss OS’s etc. > > This shouldn't be hard. It's an Intel PC with an EFI boot > system. Installing from a Debian netinstall CD > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > should work pretty well. Directions in general at > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ > > Feel free to ask more questions here, it's the right place.
Hi again John & welcome here In addition, note that if your iMac supports booting off a USB drive, then if you prefer to avoid using optical media you can copy the installation "CD" image to a USB drive and boot from that, see here: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04.html.en The "netininst" images are small images that use a working internet connection to download packages to install during the install process. There are other larger images you can use if such a network connection is not available at install time.