Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-14 Thread Kenneth Parker
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

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-14 Thread Kenneth Parker
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.

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Charles Curley
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."

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Charles Curley
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 >

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Charles Curley
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) -- Does anybody

Re: Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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

Mac El Capitan Dual Boot

2020-02-13 Thread Kenneth Parker
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