Help installing to Mac 2007

[Yellowhoney]

I have read through a few posts but I can't get my head around how to install MX 18.3 to a 2007 Imac 2007

I got my hands on a free iMac 2007, the HDD was removed, I brought and installed a new SSD ( i don't have any MAC os CD or USB stick to run mac os )
so I've been googling and found out these macs only have 32 bit EFI , some post have talked about rEFIed or rEFInd ,
I've tried using these IOS but didn't work https://mattgadient.com/2016/07/11/linu ... ment-52803

Do I need to have EXT4 or install anything else?

I don't have a clue how to get it running images/icons/smile/redface.gif

Could someone walk me through the steps?

What i have done:
Created Live USB manage to run and install

after a reboot, it only shows a gray folder with a question mark .

[fehlix]

Created Live USB manage to run and install

So you could boot with the MX 18.3 x64 Live iso from the Live USB. OK.
Could you also tell us how exactly you created the LiveUSB from
the MX 18.3 x64 iso.

Suggest we start here:
Reboot again with the LiveUSB, and do post "Quick System Info" from the running system.
.. and we go from there ...

[Yellowhoney]

Created Live USB manage to run and install

So you could boot with the MX 18.3 x64 Live iso from the Live USB. OK.
Could you also tell us how exactly you created the LiveUSB from
the MX 18.3 x64 iso.

Suggest we start here:
Reboot again with the LiveUSB, and do post "Quick System Info" from the running system.
.. and we go from there ...

download main .iso and tried 2nd way with https://mattgadient.com/2018/02/12/redu ... t-efi-macs, rufus ( windows ) > to USB i I didn't do the step you mention with the tool
but after the install

starting from scratch what IOS should i be downloading from ?

[JayM]

For those of us unfamiliar with Macs, what's an IOS?

[Yellowhoney]

Ive pull 1 stick of ram out , because i thought it might be faulty ( it take a long time to load EFI ) ( 7-10 min)
but now i think it because it USB1 right ?

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System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum May 26  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Apple product: iMac7,1 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Apple model: Mac-F4238CC8 v: PVT serial: <filter> UEFI: Apple 
           v: IM71.88Z.007A.B01.0707251237 date: 07/25/07 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo T7300 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom 
           rev: B L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 7980 
           Speed: 1790 MHz min/max: 800/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV610/M74 [Mobility Radeon HD 2400 XT] vendor: Apple driver: radeon 
           v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV610 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-5-amd64 LLVM 7.0.0) 
           v: 3.3 Mesa 18.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme 
           driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 3000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
           Device-2: Marvell 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet driver: sky2 v: 1.30 port: 2000 
           bus ID: 05:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 231.04 GiB used: 27.9 MiB (0.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDX240GG25 size: 223.57 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 7.47 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 750.0 MiB used: 22.4 MiB (3.0%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.00 GiB used: 5.5 MiB (0.2%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 34 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1197 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 181 Uptime: 1m Memory: 983.7 MiB used: 485.4 MiB (49.3%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33 

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[Yellowhoney]

For those of us unfamiliar with Macs, what's an IOS?

TYPO i ment ISO

[JayM]

Oh, OK.

[fehlix]

Ive pull 1 stick of ram out , because i thought it might be faulty ( it take a long time to load EFI ) ( 7-10 min)
but now i think it because it USB1 right ?

I'm not fully understand what you are talking about.... but anyway,
As you are now booting with the Live USB.
Do post the output

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sudo lsblk -f

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sudo parted --list

[Yellowhoney]

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$ sudo lsblk -f

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NAME   FSTYPE   LABEL     UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
loop0  squashfs                                                /live/linux
sda                                                            
└─sda3 swap               d7e8182c-0d50-47ad-8902-337e8e2f9097 [SWAP]
sdb    iso9660  antiXlive 2019-05-26-00-15-38-00               
├─sdb1 iso9660  antiXlive 2019-05-26-00-15-38-00               /live/boot-dev
└─sdb2 vfat     MX-uefi   03C5-9D27                            
sr0                                                            




demo@mx1:~
$ sudo parted --list
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDX24 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End    Size    File system     Name  Flags
 3      237GB  240GB  3217MB  linux-swap(v1)


Model: General USB Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8023MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      182kB  3594kB  3412kB  primary               esp


demo@mx1:~
$ 

[fehlix]

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$ sudo lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE   LABEL     UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                            
sda3 swap               d7e8182c-0d50-47ad-8902-337e8e2f9097 [SWAP]

$ sudo parted --list
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDX24 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Partition Table: gpt
Number  Start  End    Size    File system     Name  Flags
 3      237GB  240GB  3217MB  linux-swap(v1)

Hmm ..not sure how to read this...only swap partition is seen.
Suggest to reinstall. Do select autoinstall on the whole drive.
Do start the install in this way:

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sudo -E minstall 2>&1 | tee -a my_install.log

When installer finshes don't reboot yet, do post the my_install.log here.
Reboot with the LiveUSB and run again

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sudo lsblk -f

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sudo parted --list

and also

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sudo fdisk --list

If after reboot more partitions are seen, we might still need to fix
the 32bit UEFI with installing the 32bit grub-efi bootloader manually.