Installing Debian on iMac 17" (Late 2006): Difference between revisions

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Okay. That was another fail. Obviously, the standard ISOs can't be read by this Mac's EFI. Okay, starting over. Again.
Okay. That was another fail. Obviously, the standard ISOs can't be read by this Mac's 32bit EFI. Okay, starting over. Again.


== Preparing an ISO ==
== Preparing an ISO ==

Revision as of 15:13, 15 March 2019

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. This might not have to do with the USB-stick, but with the ISO itself. See below.

Preparing the boot CD[2]

Burning a CD? Oh well..

IMacLate2006DebianInstallCDBurn.png

Okay. That was another fail. Obviously, the standard ISOs can't be read by this Mac's 32bit EFI. Okay, starting over. Again.

Preparing an ISO

Get isomacprog.c from https://mattgadient.com/2016/07/11/linux-dvd-images-and-how-to-for-32-bit-efi-macs-late-2006-models/ .

WroDos-MBP13-AC3L:Debian 9 heiko$ WroDos-MBP13-AC3L:Debian 9 heiko$ gcc isomacprog.c -o isomacprog
done
WroDos-MBP13-AC3L:Debian 9 heiko$ mv debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst_Mac.iso



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