Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, 30.07.2012 23:19, David Harrison kirjoitti: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. I haven't tried Debian on Mac, but I have installed Ubuntu on MacBook. First you

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-CD-1.iso or

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 30.07.2012 um 22:19 schrieb David Harrison: I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. If you want to keep OS X installed and just want to have Debian installed, a virtual installation using VirtualBox (is free for Mac also)

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi David, Lest we get flamed for top posting, I've rearranged the segments of this discussion to conform to the conventions of debian-users. Look for my reply at the bottom of this email... /-: On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:19 PM, David Harrison wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install

installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread David Harrison
Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 30 July 2012 22:19, David Harrison dmh0...@charter.net wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Hi First of all: search the web for debian imac and you'll get a lot of material to study. Second: please be more