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Re: Where can I find out more regarding debian-mac-testing-amd64-netinst.iso



Just a heads up I was able to boot a linux kernel by disabling macOS filevault2 encryption. You might want to document that to save others frustration that try to install on a mac.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Colin Williams <colin.williams.seattle@gmail.com> wrote:
I tried searching for the image name in google because I found the image on the link I placed above, but didn't hit the 9.2.1 link you show. There were no results but maybe we populated it's index now. Would it make sense to have a link to the image descriptions in the FAQ? An image description page? I was able to find that which brought me to the list.

https://www.debian.org/CD/faq

Thanks. My next issue is getting a bootable linux distro to the mac.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:51:08AM -0800, Colin Williams wrote:
>It might be good to document that somewhere. Still haven't had any luck with
>the installer but that's similar to all the other distros tried.

There's already text mentioning the special mac images, for example at

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/9.2.1/amd64/iso-cd/

But that's not currently added for the daily builds. Fixing that right
now. Maybe I could also make expand it and make it more prominent
yet. The text we have currently says:

"The mac netinst CD here is a special version of the netinst CD image
 that is targeted specifically at older 64-bit Intel Macintosh
 machines. It will likely work on most other amd64 machines too, but it
 does not contain UEFI boot files that some people need."

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