[kwlug-disc] imac4,1 help

[Paul Nijjar]

I have had problems getting Linux ISOs to boot when they have embedded
desktop environments. So the desktop Ubuntu versions have not worked
well for me. 

You could try a server installation of Ubuntu if you have not tried
already, or you could try the Debian image here: 

debian-mac-9.9.0-i386-netinst.iso 

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/

You will want to read the caveats here:
https://wiki.debian.org/MacMiniIntel#Macmini_1.2C1

Apologies if you have gone through this already.

- Paul


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 05:45:20PM -0400, Gordon Dey wrote:
> Hi Paul:
> As I mentioned,I can boot the macbook install cd in the usb cd player, so
> clearly the imac firmware has enough smarts to "get" usb 2.0 and how to boot
> from it. so I don't think having the internal cd working would help me at all.
> "Does it boot any non-mac disk?" I cannot yet prove it can, but I think with
> the right magic bits, it should.
> Gord

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