Installing Debian on iMac 17" (Late 2006)

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Preparation

I started to read this:

Then I downloaded Debian for AMD64.

Preparing the USB-stick[1]

bash-3.2# mount | grep UNTIT
/dev/disk7s2 on /Volumes/UNTITLED (msdos, local, nodev, nosuid, noowners)
bash-3.2# umount /dev/disk7s2
umount(/Volumes/UNTITLED): Resource busy -- try 'diskutil unmount'
bash-3.2# diskutil unmount /dev/disk7s2
Volume UNTITLED on disk7s2 unmounted
bash-3.2# dd if=debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk7      
598016+0 records in
598016+0 records out
306184192 bytes transferred in 630.153914 secs (485888 bytes/sec)
bash-3.2# sync
bash-3.2# diskutil eject /dev/disk7
Disk /dev/disk7 ejected
bash-3.2# 

Okay. That didn't work out. Booting the iMac with Option-Key down doesn't show the stick.

Preparing the boot CD

Burning a CD? Oh well..

IMacLate2006DebianInstallCDBurn.png



  • Footnotes:
  1. You might want to skip this step :)