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  Installing Debian on iMac John Hammack <john@cahammack.com> - 2019-05-05 23:20 +0200
    Re: Installing Debian on iMac Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-06 01:30 +0200
      Re: Installing Debian on iMac David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 03:30 +0200
    Re: Installing Debian on iMac Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2019-05-06 02:50 +0200

#208237 — Installing Debian on iMac

 iMac:  iMac (24-inch, early 2009), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3,  OS X El Capitan ver 10.11.6. 
Objective: Install Debian and software development tools (compilers, interpreters, and support applications for software development.)  
Progress:  I have searched  the internet and have not found instructions I could follow through to completion.  
Experience:  Before retirement (1995) I was doing software development on a Hewlett Packard Unix System ((HPUX).  I was then comfortable with the Unix system, BASH and all.  
Excuse:  I am now living in The Villages FL and with all these old folks there is no one here with which I can discuss OS’s etc.

Comments recommendations appreciated.  


						Thanks John 






I am 85 and have accumulated rust where brain cells used to be.  

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#208242

John Hammack wrote: 
>  iMac:  iMac (24-inch, early 2009), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3,  OS X El Capitan ver 10.11.6. 
> Objective: Install Debian and software development tools (compilers, interpreters, and support applications for software development.)  
> Progress:  I have searched  the internet and have not found instructions I could follow through to completion.  
> Experience:  Before retirement (1995) I was doing software development on a Hewlett Packard Unix System ((HPUX).  I was then comfortable with the Unix system, BASH and all.  
> Excuse:  I am now living in The Villages FL and with all these old folks there is no one here with which I can discuss OS’s etc.


This shouldn't be hard. It's an Intel PC with an EFI boot
system. Installing from a Debian netinstall CD 

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso

should work pretty well. Directions in general at

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/

Feel free to ask more questions here, it's the right place.

-dsr-

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#208249

On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 09:28, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> John Hammack wrote:
> >  iMac:  iMac (24-inch, early 2009), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3,  OS X El Capitan ver 10.11.6.
> > Objective: Install Debian and software development tools (compilers, interpreters, and support applications for software development.)
> > Progress:  I have searched  the internet and have not found instructions I could follow through to completion.
> > Experience:  Before retirement (1995) I was doing software development on a Hewlett Packard Unix System ((HPUX).  I was then comfortable with the Unix system, BASH and all.
> > Excuse:  I am now living in The Villages FL and with all these old folks there is no one here with which I can discuss OS’s etc.
>
> This shouldn't be hard. It's an Intel PC with an EFI boot
> system. Installing from a Debian netinstall CD
>
> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> should work pretty well. Directions in general at
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/
>
> Feel free to ask more questions here, it's the right place.

Hi again John & welcome here

In addition, note that if your iMac supports booting off a USB drive, then
if you prefer to avoid using optical media you can copy the installation
"CD" image to a USB drive and boot from that, see here:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04.html.en

The "netininst" images are small images that use a working internet
connection to download packages to install during the install process.
There are other larger images you can use if such a network connection
is not available at install time.

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#208246

Hi John, and welcome to the Debian community!

I assume you have a broadband Internet connection where you will be doing this installation?  If so:

You’ll want the Mac specific “netinst” installer image[1] that gets most of its software packages from the Debian mirrors on the Web.
   [1]  https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/>

Take a look at this wiki page[2] for instructions on making a dual-boot MacOS/Debian setup.  The wiki page is aimed at the mac mini but it should mostly carry over for your iMac.  Also, you’ll want to read the wiki page[3] for burning an installer CD under MacOS.
   [2] https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel
   [3] https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-mac

And, of course, you’ll want to RTFM[4]
   [4] https://www.debian.org/doc/

If you’re not already signed up, you will want to join the debian-user mailing list[5].  That’s where you’ll find lots of friendly, helpful and knowledgeable folks.
   [5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Enjoy!
Rick


> On May 5, 2019, at 1:52 PM, John Hammack <john@cahammack.com> wrote:
> 
> iMac:  iMac (24-inch, early 2009), Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3,  OS X El Capitan ver 10.11.6. 
> Objective: Install Debian and software development tools (compilers, interpreters, and support applications for software development.)  
> Progress:  I have searched  the internet and have not found instructions I could follow through to completion.  
> Experience:  Before retirement (1995) I was doing software development on a Hewlett Packard Unix System ((HPUX).  I was then comfortable with the Unix system, BASH and all.  
> Excuse:  I am now living in The Villages FL and with all these old folks there is no one here with which I can discuss OS’s etc.
> 
> Comments recommendations appreciated.  
> 
> 	Thanks John 
> I am 85 and have accumulated rust where brain cells used to be.  

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