Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-28 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 28.01.2015 um 03:30 schrieb Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com: Thanks for the input. Yeah I (personally) need to get onto the VM bandwagon. [I downloaded (from apt) virtualbox a while ago but have not got round to trying it... So you are suggesting I get it from virtualbox website and

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this?

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] It would help me if there was uniformity with all using linux Since I have no idea about macs, wondering if this works. If you need uniformity -- all students

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Rusi Mody
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 11:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? You have several options. 1. You can run Debian in a virtual machine. 2.

Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Jonathan Copeland
Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland M // (+27) 82 857 1349 tel://(+27) 82 857 1349 T // @jonmcopeland

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/26/15, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: You have several options. 1. You can run Debian in a virtual machine. 2. You can repartition your disk(s) and install Debian in a dual-boot. 3. You can wipe Mac OS and install Debian by itself. In any of those scenarios, you can

Installing Debian on a Mac Mini

2006-07-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to install Debian on a Mac Mini (x86) but I'm having a silly little problem: - I have BootCamp and rEFIt installed - At boot time, I select the CD drive to boot - The CD boot loader (ISOLINUX?) starts up great and asks me to hit ENTER or F1 and now the problem: the USB keyboard seems

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac Mini

2006-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Monnier wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a Mac Mini (x86) but I'm having a silly little problem: - I have BootCamp and rEFIt installed - At boot time, I select the CD drive to boot - The CD boot loader (ISOLINUX?) starts up great and asks me to hit ENTER or F1 and now the

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Andrew D Dixon wrote: I don't have very much experience with installing Linux on the PPC architecture but I believe that yaboot is the bootloader that you want to use if you have a newworld machine. That being said I have no idea if your is newworld. A 7600 isn't a

Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Leyah Cynamon
Hi, I just downloaded Bootx from http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac along with other files shown on that page required for installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerMac. I have never tried to install Debian GNU/Linux or any other Linux on my mac or any other computer for that

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Andrew D Dixon
I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering BootX and miBoot should be avoided on newworld type machines. As I don't know if my machine qualifies as a new world type machine, I have to ask: has anyone tried BootX on a machine like mine? or is that not such a good idea? If

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac 7600 with G3 upgrade

2001-04-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:29:33PM -0400, Leyah Cynamon wrote: I have a PowerMac 7600 which has an XLR8 400 Mhz Mach Speed G3 Card replacing the original Apple132 Mhz processor (daughter) card. I noticed that the BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe says in bold lettering BootX and miBoot should be avoided