Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 10/02/2020 à 12:17, Rick Thomas a écrit : For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did not contain anything extra > but rather lack/lacked of UEFI boot entry points and of any UEFI boot > software. Some MAC firmwares are said to take offense from UEFI > bootable ISOs. Simply try whether yours is among them. If any > mentioning of

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Rick, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:17:14AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >For a friend... > >Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free >firmware? > >He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > >

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rick Thomas wrote: > I notice that the webpage at >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmw > are/10.3.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ > mentions a mac image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the list of > files. As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
I notice that the webpage at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.3.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ mentions a mac image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the list of files. Is that an oversight, or was there a conscious decision to drop "mac"

Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Rick Thomas
For a friend... Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free firmware? He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html That he'd like to get Linux running on. A live image for the