Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 12/05/2014 10:55 AM, Brian Sammon wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 +0000
> Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and
> > I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to
> > play with. To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is*
> > EFI capable, but doesn't work in quite the way we'd normally expect.
> >
> > To confirm that, could you try the wheezy installer CD again for me
> > please?
>
> It hasn't come up yet in this thread, but I just noticed that the CD
> I've been using is labeled (by me) "7.0.0 i386".  I should probably get
> a more recent version.
> A related question: i386 or amd64?  Do you have a
> recommendation/preference?

If you have 4 gigs of ram or better then amd64 would be the best from my 
experience, depending on CPU. :) Ric


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