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Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> writes:

> In article <mjlhyaz4x0.fsf@ethel.the.log>,
>  Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Installing Linux on a Mac directly is a non-starter.
> > 
> > It really isn't that bad.  Admittedly it wasn't crystal clear how to
> > do everything, but it took me about an hour, and if I'd had the good
> > sense to take notes, I could have written a page of instructions making
> > it easy for anyone else.
> > 
> > Likely others have done this (written the instructions).
> 
> I'm not exactly the one only familiar with office software, but not too 
> far behind!  If I hadn't moved up from TRSDOS and CP/M to a Mac 512, I 
> might not be having any trouble with LINUX!
> 
> The websites I've found with instructions, seem to all be either 
> referring to using a virtual machine or partitioning a Mac's (only) HD.  
> Definitely not installing LINUX to a fourth hard drive.
> 
> Even the rEFIt program appears to be geared to working with HD number 
> one and maybe two.  In my early trials, I noticed it only listed 
> partition data on two of my four drives.  I assume the terminal command 
> used to activate it (sudo /efi/rEFIt/enable.sh) operates on the booted 
> OS X drive, not necessarily the fourth drive with LINUX installed.  I'm 
> not smart enough to adjust the command to work on a different drive.
> 
> So I figured rather than fight it, I'd join the crowd.  I partitioned 
> the 500 GB HD with 100 GB and 400 GB partitions.  I then deleted the 400 
> GB partition and installed OS X on the other.
> 
> I installed from a Debian Live 7.2 AMD64 Gnome DVD, choosing the 
> "largest free space" option.  The only adjustment I made to the 
> suggested partition scheme was to set the boot flag on the / partition.
> 
> To get it to work, it was necessary to set HD4 as the default startup 
> drive and re-install rEFIt.  I issued the terminal command from HD4 to 
> activate it, and used the rEFIt partition utility to "fix" the 
> partitions.
> 
> Still it took several reboots before everything worked.  Using rEFIt 
> during the boot process did not help.  Eventually, holding down the 
> option key during booting let me select one of two "windows" drives that 
> appeared.  One did not work, but the other did!  (I take it the two 
> LINUX partitions show up as two separate drives.)
> 
> So Debian works now.  But it does not look much like Raspbian!

It looks a lot like it at the system level:  the filesystem, the
shell, the utility programs, etc.

The Gnome GUI might be very different looking than the GUI you have on
Raspbian (or you may not have a GUI on Raspbian).

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MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 18:31 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-17 18:38 -0500
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 23:28 -0500
      Re: MacLINUX JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-18 00:18 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 17:40 -0800
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-17 23:16 -0500
  Re: MacLINUX Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-17 22:37 -0800
    Re: MacLINUX isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-01-18 13:45 -0800
      Re: MacLINUX Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-18 17:01 -0800
      Re: MacLINUX Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-19 10:41 -0500
        Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 18:58 +0000
  Re: MacLINUX Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-18 10:52 -0500
    Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-18 16:37 -0500
      Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-18 14:35 -0800
        Re: MacLINUX Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-19 04:26 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 01:54 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 12:52 -0800
  Re: MacLINUX Barry OGrady <atheist@hotmail.com.au> - 2014-01-20 14:57 +1100
    Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 04:54 +0000
      Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 05:02 +0000
        Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 09:34 +0000
          Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 18:35 +0000
            Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 19:19 +0000
              Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:54 +0000
            Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-20 13:13 -0800
              Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 14:04 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-20 14:10 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 14:25 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-20 18:38 -0500
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 16:45 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2014-01-21 12:26 -0500
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 17:41 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 10:24 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 20:48 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 12:55 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 21:20 +0000
                Re: MacLINUX Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-21 13:47 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-22 02:22 -0800
                Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:28 +0000
    Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 05:01 +0000
  Re: MacLINUX "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2014-01-20 19:19 +0000
    Re: MacLINUX Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:55 +0000

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