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
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 next Stable
Release).
He wants to shrink the Mac Partit
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