Has anybody here tried to install Trisquel on a iMac? Is it even possible?
(alu - intel 2008)
Surely there's a way. The easiest way is to download it and try it out. The
Live CD/DVD/USB image can be run without making any changes to see how things
work.
Trisquel 6 works, Trisquel 7 still doesn't due to an issue with the Grub
installer. That said T6 still works incredibly well on these Apple system,
the only exceptions is the wireless generally in not supported due to
Broadcom not providing many (if any) Free drivers. Also if there is a
spe
Tx - a good tip to try out the live first.
Tx for feedback.
Will try the live cd first. I'm in no need for the WiFi to work as it is
connect with wire and 3D i don't do anyway. It's mostly used for design
(paper print), some development and the usual internet stuff.
Just to let you know. Trisquel on my iMac (2008).
After trying the live cd properly I decided to wipe osx and install Trisquel
on the HD. So far so good Tx to the developers/maintainers of
Debian/Ubuntu and Trisquel.
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Hey, I have an iMac Late 2009. 64 bits Core 2 Duo processor 3,06 GHz, 4 GB of
RAM. I try to boot Trisquel 7 from both a CD (with the Mini edition) and an
USB (with the standard edition), and neither work, with either Apple EFI or
rEFInd. The CD is ejected every time I load it, and only a BIOS
Do these wiki pages help?
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/burn-trisquel-cd-images
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-create-liveusb
Both my CD and USB boot from another PC. C'mon, I used dd for the
"pen-drive"! xD
I already know how to burn bootable devices, I've been doing it for years.
Thank you anyway, but this seems a problem with the boot sector. And maybe
the CD itself or the Superdrive, with the optical media boo
If what @jabjabs says earlier in the thread is still true there's a known
problem with T7. Try T6.
And now I'm using a real keyboard...
If you want to run the risk that it might be that all you can do is
see how pretty T7 is by booting the LiveCD then:
In the past (around the vintage of your machine) I found iMac optical
drives finickier than many others. So after md5sum or gpg --verify
-ing
I haven't tried the release version of T7 yet actually, I shall do that in
the next few days. I also had issues with the previous image of T7 (Around
about October date) on a Intel Core 2 desktop with it not being able to write
to boot sector on 0,0,0 but that has been resolved with the offic
1) The CD suddendly worked! But it asks for username and password. I tried
"trisquel", "trisquel-mini" and "root" (with no password or repeating the
username), and nothing works. Anybody knows what could it be? (and no, I'm
not using an AMD graphics card)
2) If the CD fails again, I should tr
Try the username "live" (and is there a guest session? Perhaps you should try
"guest" as well)
Anyway Unetbootin should work. I don't think Apple computers support booting
from USB, though (or was that Macbooks?). In which case you need a CD that
can boot the USB drive. I'd reccommend y
None of both users worked, duh -_-
My iMac supports USB booting (only UEFI on Apple's EFI, also BIOS with
rEFInd), so in theory, it should just work (as Trisquel 7 also has an UEFI
boot manager). However, I couldn't start from my USB, after burning it using
dd, as said earlier. So yeah, may
Oh, and note: If you want to do a debootstrap there's a trisquel-mini
metapackage for you to install when you chroot into the installation.
Not that I ever install it like that (I always install something like
trisquel-base>Xorg>Lxterminal>Synaptic>Desktop Shell&Network
Manager&Upower&DM>ot
Doing good, doing good. Installing right now, as I finally managed to boot
(still can't confirm that the problem's over)
The Ubuntu USB Creator did the job - thank you all for your help! :D
That's really cool man!. Please keep in touch and share your experience with
the comunity if you find any issue.
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