In addition, for those running from a linux environment, a custom debian live iso or usb image can easily be created using the livehelper scripts. I was wrestling with the configuration of a windows 95 computer, on the phone with the tech support people at my isp. This single cd contains just the minimal amount of software to start the installation and fetch the remaining packages over the internet. All init scripts that still use the obsoleted networking tools should be rewritten and the ifconfig and route8 programs should be only optional. The mac netinst cd here is a special version of the netinst cd image that is targeted specifically at older 64bit intel macintosh machines. Aug 28, 2012 here are my notes from recently installing wheezy on a couple of g4 power mac machines, including a g4 mini. The majority of times i installed linux i ran refind on my mac, so i could keep my mac partition and have a separate linux partition. Creating a bootable ubuntu usb flash drive from mac osx.
When this bootable usb didnt boot, i found a bug report here suggesting that, although unetbootin lists a version for os x, it is actually not able to create bootable usbs. How to install on power mac g5 from usb stick well, i tried burning the iso debian6. The result was the expected message that usb could not be read. This is about documenting getting linux running on the late 2016 and mid 2017 mpbs. This solution will allow you to boot common linux usb drives on your mac.
I tried to follow a lot of different tutorials and two linux distros. In t julius there are some things, which are more difficult than they initially seem. Some users love apples hardware and have substituted linux for os x on the macbook pro. How to create a bootable linux installation usb from an. Note that you can do this even in mac os x or other linux machine. You will see items called ide controller and sata controller in the left side of the screen. When selecting the image type, choose dd and select your desired iso file ubuntu isos are hybrid, meaning they can either be copied in iso or dd. Put the usb drive into your mac and enable it on the vm settings ports usb usb device filters.
In the previous tutorial i told you can change it by ifconfig from a root account. How to install on power mac g5 from usb stick debian. Meanwhile older hardware from cupertino like my macbook pro late. Debian is a bit trickier to install and set up on a macbook than fedora is fedora on macbook. This guide shows how to prepare a 32bit efi bootable usb drive which has the debian installer and an i386 installation iso image of your. The oldest mini macmini1,1 is typically the most problematic, due to bugs in its firmware. Once complete open windows explorer and navigate to the usb stick. To install debian, you will need an installer image to boot from, either on a cd, dvd, or usb stick. Now the problem is it wont boot from the usb stick or what i should say. The result was that the usb was not bootable in the loading screen pressing alt button the usb does not show.
Jun 11, 20 every so often i need to make a bootable usb stick in windows 7 64 bit of a debian installer iso. Alternatively, if you have access to windows, download rufus. Debian installs grub, a boot manager and loader, on the hard drives efi partition. How to put a linux iso onto a usb stick and make it bootable on a. If your client machines bios supports it, you can then boot the debian installation system from the network using pxe and tftp, and proceed with installing the rest of debian from the network. The hard disk is 80 gb and the first half is occupied by the mac os x and on the second half im trying to install debian. If youve downloaded debian to your downloads under home directory. Unetbootin allows you to create bootable live usb drives for ubuntu, fedora, and other linux distributions. If your mac just boots to the login screen and you dont see the boot options menu, reboot your mac again and hold down the option key earlier in the boot process. How to boot and install linux or bsd on a 2007 macbook. If you want to use a windows client, please take a look at alirezataleghanis tutorial that part is still the same. How to boot ubuntu on a mac from external usb storage.
Boot debian from an usb device posted by anonymous 62. Once the linux debian bootable usb disk is created, the mac os will ask you if you. The two failing ones are newer that the two other delivered in dec 05 and jan 06, the working ones were delivered mid2005. Two usb sticks for creating the bootable macos and debian installers. Debian also configures the computers firmware to open the grub boot manager instead of entering directly into the mac os x boot loader. The first suggestions were to use win32 compiled variants of dd or rawwrite. If you need your mac to boot from the ubuntu usb, the ubuntu website has a detailed guide explaining how to dd the disk image onto a usb. This last time, however, i was so fed up with osx and the fact i never used it, i nuked it entirely. Debian live is a continuing project headed by daniel baumann, that offers usbhdd debian images and isos of the debian live operating system with the gnome, kde, lxde or xfce desktops. Apr 27, 2020 installing debian on a old macbook pro its true we could expend more time with our loved ones during the social isolation or social distancing, or quarantine, or lockdown imposed by the coronavirus covid19 pandemic crisis, for sure some important and extra valued time.
Other distos have large amouts of troubleshooting this issue, but not debian. How do you create a live persistent ubuntu usb on a mac that. Mount your usb drive and make sure linux recognizes your device. How to boot and install linux or bsd on a 2007 macbook white. The main purpose is that not even ifconfig is obsoleted for a long time but it even does not really work. Cette installation remplacera completement mac os x par debian. Then mount the stick and copy debiantestingi386 netinst. Boot debian from an usb device debian administration. If you want to dualboot mac os x and debian, read on. Internet connection was provided initially using ethernet port. I use ubuntu and not debian, so im not 100% sure if thats where things go, or how usb stick mounting works by default, so i cant give you any canned commands. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac compatible.
It is worth to know ifconfig8 because of bsd systems. Unzip and run the refindinstall script on the macbook pro. A boot manager, on computer startup, lets the user decide which operating system to load. Rick your details may vary, such as the device name assigned to your usbstick by the os and the name of the iso file. In the screen that appears, click on the storage icon. A network install or netinst cd is a single cd which enables you to install the entire operating system. Run the installer from the disc and, when prompted, click the restart button. Amazon even sells used macbook pros for those who want an apple laptop without. A nice icon with the usb logo should be shown in the boot menu.
Any advice how can i debug why my usb did not becamse debian bootable after those procedures. There are some things, which are more difficult than they initially seem. For this, youll need the same iso that you used for burning the cdrom and execute i did it with netinst image of debian testing. On two of them, it works, on two including mine it fails. How to create a linux debian bootable usb disk with different os. Installing debian on a old macbook pro pvitals blog. Insert the prepared usb drive to the macbook and turn it on while pressing the option alt key. It will likely work on most other amd64 machines too, but it does not contain uefi boot files that some people need. The first step is to create a new virtualbox machine. Installation was done with a debian jessie netinst usb key. This is simple just select the iso image and roll with the defaults in rufus. How to create a bootable usb stick with debian squeeze unix. The main difference seems to be that debian live exists in ram and has fewer write cycles.
Yes i have set the usb option as the top in the bios boot options. Next, i tried the instructions at debianeeepc howto. How to make a bootable usb stick in windows 7 of a debian. Ive got a power mac id like to run debian on, but while the install files are easy enough to find, ive been having a devil of a time figuring out how im supposed to boot the thing from usb. I had to use a thunderbolttoethernet adapter for the install, which worked fine, but i still havent been able to get wireless working. Format usb drive as fat32, start unetbootin, select your iso file, select usb device, hit ok and wait for it to finish. Nov 27, 2014 the majority of times i installed linux i ran refind on my mac, so i could keep my mac partition and have a separate linux partition. This is true for creating a bootable usb drive on mac with a linux distro on it. How to make a bootable usb stick in windows 7 of a debian iso. Create live debian usb with mac linux usb loader will boot on newer macs, but not on macbook2,1 ive seen something about manually putting a gpt table on the usb drive, or creating a separate efi partition, but since its more technical and time consuming i didnt get around to it. How to set up a usboverip server and client with debian. But these tools on gnu os differs a bit and are totally obsoleted by the ip8 utility.
Instead, put the debian installation iso into the cd drive of the vm. This is an update to a previous post regarding the change of mac address in debian. Mar 16, 2018 once the linux debian bootable usb disk is created, the mac os will ask you if you want to eject it. I have installed refind on my macbook pro, and i have installed the iso image for debian 8. For usb, you need to specify the disk as well here. How to install debian gnulinux netinstall terkeyberger. This tutorial is based on alirezataleghanis tutorial how to modify your gnulinux box to serve as a usb over ip server, but ive adjusted it for debian lenny server and client. It is a macbook pro inch, mid 2012 laptop with the following important specs. However, it is possible to proceed using a usb driver in. Once the linux debian bootable usb disk is created, the mac os will ask you if you want to eject it. Install debian live to a flash drive from windows pen. However, it is possible to proceed using a usb driver in which youll. The mac will boot the linux system from the connected usb drive.
Create a linux debian bootable usb disk with linux. How to create a linux debian bootable usb disk with. Proceed with the installation following the macbook install section of debian wiki. Heres some information i found in comparison to fedora. Back then, most internet access was dialup, and trying to get internet access if you even knew what that was could be a major hassle. Unfortunately, mac users have to go through a few more hurdles to get an iso image onto a usb stick in order to make it boot properly. Debian live is a continuing project headed by daniel baumann, that offers usb hdd debian images and isos of the debian live operating system with the gnome, kde, lxde or xfce desktops. Install debian live to a flash drive from windows pen drive. I first came across debian in 1997, nearly 20 years ago.
The wireless card was configured providing a third part driver during the installation step. If booting from usb or cd, then youll want to take a look at your boot order. Thanks so much to all those who took the time to respond to my anguished plea for help trying to get wheezy installed from a netinstall cd image but the install kept failing to install grub. The installation program for debian wont come, instead it goes normal into fedora22 everytime. Debian user forums view topic cant get usbethernet. The development and distribution of debian is handled by a nonprofit organization, and the operating system can be downloaded free of charge from their website. With usb drive in the laptop, reboot and hold down the alt key. If you want your mac to run only debian, you can skip ahead to burning the installation cd. Follow the debian install process, and make sure you select the linux partition you created, in my case it was devsda4. But the fullfat debian 9 on usb can do an aptget upgrade and also should be more. Or if in linux, you could just use dd data description in command line. With mac os x running, insert the gray mac os x install disc 1 that you received with your mac. First, let me describe the hardware of this old macbook friend i used to install. Rick your details may vary, such as the device name assigned to your usb stick by the os and the name of the iso file.
Learning how to install debian is a relatively straightforward process requiring an internet connection, disk imaging software, and a blank cd or usb stick. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you. For some reason my googling usually does not reveal a simple solution for this. All of this was done using debian s graphical installer. Select the debian 8 virtual machine in the left side of the virtualbox window and then click on the settings icon in the virtualbox menu bar. It will likely work on most other amd64 machines too, but it does not contain.
I ordered a 15 rmbp in july 2015, and used a debian stable netinst image on a usb stick to dual boot it after installing refind from the os x side. Evidently, this is a common problem with netinstall images. Proceed with the installation following the macbook install. In which case, im gonna go for a debian 9 install onto usb. Every so often i need to make a bootable usb stick in windows 7 64 bit of a debian installer iso. How to set the mac address from etcnetworkinterfaces in debian. May 23, 2017 to actually boot the drive, reboot your mac and hold down the option key while it boots. Has anyone tried linux on the 2015 retina macbook pros. If your mac just boots to the login screen and you dont see the boot options menu, reboot your mac again and hold. Plug it on the computer to install, select in the bios usb for first boot device and start the debian squeeze installation. Here are my notes from recently installing wheezy on a couple of g4 powermac machines, including a g4 mini.
It is important to boot with the usb attached to your macbook pro if you dont do it like this, it may fail for mounting the device in cdrom. It provides a menu to install the debian edu pure blend. Number start end size file system name flags 1 512b 32. It also seems seems several years old and outdated. Linux on macbook pro late 2016 and mid 2017 with touchbar. Its also possible to boot wheezy installers from a usb key in this. I use aptget too, which is most correct on debian based systems. However, a debian 9 usb seems to function the same as debian live. The system is now bootable from any mac by simply pressing and holding the option key at startup.
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