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Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug

From "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug
Date 2021-01-11 09:10 +0100
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 09:47:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:02:41 -0500
> Stephen Muscarella <contact@muscarella.info> wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded the debian-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso image from the home 
> > page on Big Sur.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Any thoughts or ideas?
> 
> I suspect corruption during downloading. Did you check the checksums?
> https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify For the checksums,
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/
> 
> I'm no expert on Macs, but I see on that page
> debian-mac-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso. Are you getting the right
> architecture?
> 

That image was for a limited subset of Intel based Macs some years ago - see
various discussions elsewhere in this list. The AMD64 image should work for 
current Intel-based Macs.

If you're prepared to pay for software for your Macs, VMWare and Parallels
both support Debian well.

Hope this helps,

Andy C.

> -- 
> Does anybody read signatures any more?
> 
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> https://charlescurley.com/blog/
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MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug Stephen Muscarella <contact@muscarella.info> - 2021-01-11 01:30 +0100
  Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-11 05:50 +0100
    Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-11 09:10 +0100
      Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-01-11 19:40 +0100
        Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-12 23:50 +0100
          Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug Stephen Muscarella <contact@muscarella.info> - 2021-01-13 00:00 +0100
            Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-13 09:40 +0100
    Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-01-11 09:20 +0100

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