Install to external (I think) SSD

Xen list at xenhideout.nl
Sun Jul 30 08:23:34 UTC 2017


Ralf Mardorf schreef op 30-07-2017 9:35:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:48:22 +0100, Grizzly wrote:
>> 30 July 2017  at 3:09, Xen wrote:
>>> It would only show harddisks after it finds an appropriate bootloader
>>> on them.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I suspect it should show all attached hard disks, since a hard disk
> could contain data and nothing bootable at all.

I was talking about the Startup Manager that shows up during boot.

> People usually don't buy a new Apple computer to install Linux on it.
> What some people might want to do, is installing Ubuntu on a very old
> Apple computer. The iBook's architecture is 32-bit PPC, IOW it is a
> very old computer. 1. I seriously doubt that you need EFI. 2. On Ubuntu
> 32-bit PPC architecture unlikely has got a future. This explains why
> finding solutions isn't that easy. 1. A small community of Apple PPC
> users. 2. If you install it today, there unlikely will be a release
> upgrade available in the future.

MacBooks are probably 64-bit Intel based.




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