Hi Rick, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:17:14AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: >For a friend... > >Does there exist a Buster Debian amd64 installer for mac with non-free >firmware? > >He has a been given a 2006 vintage quad core MacPro1,1 > > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-quad-3.0-specs.html >That he'd like to get Linux running on.
Sorry, we've never made a firmware-included version of the Mac-specific installer image. Does that machine actually *need* that particular combination? The mac-specific image is only there for a small number of macs whose firmware can't cope with both BIOS and UEFI boot machinery in the same image. It's worth testing with a normal image first. We try *not* to build a complete matrix of every possible image type with all options, purely for logistical reasons. >A live image for the same would be nice too! Again, that's a lot of effort for a tiny number of possible users at this point. Sorry. >I notice that the webpage at > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.3.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/ > >mentions a mac image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the >list of files. Is that an oversight, or was there a conscious >decision to drop "mac" support with 10.3 ? Oops, no. I think that's a bug in the code that generates that web page. I'll fix that now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra
