Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/01/2017 à 06:49, solitone a écrit : On Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:32:28 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote: ​You want to use a installation with efi support so apparently the Debian Live option is not recommended because it doesn't support efi booting. I don't understand how a live image

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-22 Thread solitone
On Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:32:28 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​You want to use a installation with efi support so apparently the Debian > Live option is not recommended because it doesn't support efi booting. I don't understand how a live image relates to this topic. The OP wants to

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 22 January 2017 at 15:41, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:08:59 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > > you need to play with the bios on your Mac box to get it to boot from the > > debian DVD. > > The point is that, in contrast to all other PCs I had, on Macs

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-22 Thread Cathy Gramze
As an iMac owner who has had a dual boot Mac system before: Hold down the C key while the computer is starting up, and the computer will boot to the DVD. (assuming the dvd was burned correctly as a bootable DVD) reFind is a very nice app, but unnecessary, and *really* mucks up being able to

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-22 Thread solitone
On Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:08:59 PM CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > you need to play with the bios on your Mac box to get it to boot from the > debian DVD. The point is that, in contrast to all other PCs I had, on Macs you cannot enter the BIOS setup and configure the boot order. You have

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 21 January 2017 at 19:43, Rafael Lauda wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > My name is Rafael Lauda and I’ve tried time and time again to install a > dual boot Debian on my MacBook Pro 9,1. I have installed rEFInd on my > MacBook Pro, and I have installed the iso image for

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread solitone
On Sunday, January 22, 2017 7:00:53 AM CET solitone wrote: > Have you tried to press the "Command ⌘" key while turning on the MacBook > with the power button? A screen offering different boot options (e.g. MacOS > on disk, debian installer on DVD) should be displayed. Sorry, the right key you

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread solitone
On Saturday, January 21, 2017 2:43:54 PM CET Rafael Lauda wrote: > I have installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro rEFInd is unnecessary, you can have a dual boot system without it. I have installed Debian on a MacBook Pro 12,1 without rEFInd. > and I have installed the iso image for Debian 8.7.1 1

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, January 21, 2017 06:32:15 PM Gary Roach wrote: > One thing. You will have to set up a file folder that is shared between > the VB OS and your regular OS. It allows file transfer between the two > systems. Try that with a regular dual boot setup! That's about as easy as pie! Just

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/21/2017 11:43 AM, Rafael Lauda wrote: Good Afternoon, My name is Rafael Lauda and I’ve tried time and time again to install a dual boot Debian on my MacBook Pro 9,1. I have installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro, and I have installed the iso image for Debian 8.7.1 1 onto a DVD-R. When the

Re: Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rafael Lauda qrote: > I have installed the iso image for Debian 8.7.1 1 onto a DVD-R. How exactly did you do this ? (What program did you use, which options therein, any peculiarities ?) >From which URL did you get the ISO ? > I have installed rEFInd [...] > When the computer is turned on

Help Installing a Dual Boot Debian and Mac OS MacBook Pro 9,1

2017-01-21 Thread Rafael Lauda
Good Afternoon, My name is Rafael Lauda and I’ve tried time and time again to install a dual boot Debian on my MacBook Pro 9,1. I have installed rEFInd on my MacBook Pro, and I have installed the iso image for Debian 8.7.1 1 onto a DVD-R. When the computer is turned on the dvd does not show. I