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I'd still check with your ISP that everything is ok given that I'm in the same country as you - and @Amethyst1 is in Germany but we both had no issues with downloading the file.
Just reassmbled the A1355 Time Capsule 1 TB because it kept reporting 4TB, and guess what, it actually does have 4TB! this bundle was worth what I paid for it.
I installed Mint 21 with 32bit EFI to my 2006 iMac 5,1. Went smoothly.
Took a ready made installer from the same site Amethyst1 links in post #48.
Will try that. Will wait until the new battery is here and fitted. Have got the SSD for the Mini, will install it later.
Decided not to wait for the battery. Downloading the .iso, and searching for writable DVDs!
It doesn't like ANY recordable disks, full stop. It won't burn a DVD itself, although it will happily play standard video DVDs. So without major surgery to replace the drive, this machine would appear to be be stuck where it is, on Lion.
There are not too many pure 32-bit Linux distros any more and they are getting rarer by the day, it seems. Not even Debian seem to do one any more. Oh well...
The MacBook will only burn CDs.
What about a 64-bit one with an EFI32 boot loader?
Doesn’t that only work on MBAs unlessPs. I think an external USB Apple Superdrive is a good thing to have.
mbasd=1 is passed to OS X? Are there different revisions?I’d go for a non-Apple FireWire or USB DVD drive. Less picky, less expensive.
Yeah, that is what he is trying to install per your and my recommendation but he wants to burn it a DVD to be able to boot and install it.
No idea, never realized that it would be a problem. We have couple of those and I think I've used it with several non MBA at some point? But, thanks for the tip - I'll give it a read. 👍
Now burning the iso using Simplyburns and the Macbook, in the hope that it will then recognise something it did itself!
Zero progress on getting Linux onto the Macbook, so gave up and re-installed Lion. It also has its new battery, so the throttle is unlocked, and with the 3GB RAM and SSD combination, it flies! So I will look at various things by @wicknix in order to actually use it as-is, because dammit, it just works...
Mini currently upgrading to Sonoma! Probably ridiculous, but whatever. I may also go back to El Capitan on that and again use @wicknix software to make it usable.
Mini currently upgrading to Sonoma! Probably ridiculous, but whatever. I may also go back to El Capitan on that and again use @wicknix software to make it usable.
Not trying to patch Mountain Lion on it? Not that it makes much of a difference these days.
If you want bleeding edge browsers I'd suggest chromium-legacy and/or pale moon as I only rebuild sealion for major releases, not minor bug fix releases. Unless of course that isn't a big deal and you just love the SeaMonkey-like user interface. ;-)
However, I'd really suggest Snow Leopard instead of Lion. More available applications (ppc and Intel) and with Jazzzny's UXP port to 10.6 you get a modern browser as well. Top that off with InABox that's now using the same UXP code, you can create custom web apps (just like you can with chrome/chromium).
Oh, and 10.6 absolutely flies on an SSD. But I do really like Lion as well, and i keep it on a few machines also. A dual boot machine might be just what the doctor ordered.
Cheers
No, I think I'll stick with Lion, or as @wicknix suggests below, Snow Leopard.
I'm liking the SL idea. It's a play machine, but it might just prove useful also, if there's a way to use encrypted USB sticks with it, a la Bitlocker on Windows. Then it can be the machine for my (very) small business!If you want bleeding edge browsers I'd suggest chromium-legacy and/or pale moon as I only rebuild sealion for major releases, not minor bug fix releases. Unless of course that isn't a big deal and you just love the SeaMonkey-like user interface. ;-)
However, I'd really suggest Snow Leopard instead of Lion. More available applications (ppc and Intel) and with Jazzzny's UXP port to 10.6 you get a modern browser as well. Top that off with InABox that's now using the same UXP code, you can create custom web apps (just like you can with chrome/chromium).
Oh, and 10.6 absolutely flies on an SSD. But I do really like Lion as well, and i keep it on a few machines also. A dual boot machine might be just what the doctor ordered.
Cheers