Hey All, I’d like to reinstall Debian on an old MacBook (intel core i5, so i386) from an existing and more recent Mac (M2). I’ve downloaded the i386 netinst (« little cd ») tried the methods described on both Debian and Ubuntu pages (links below). The operation completes successfully, but the USB key isn’t identified as bootable: When starting the system with « Alt », all I can select is the usual internal disk. Is there another way to verify the validity of my method, or another way I can try to create a bootable USB?

Do I need to convert the ISO with hdiutil or is it ready, and a cp is sufficient?

If I do a simple cp, is the old FAT file format sufficient?

Many thanks!

Resources used:

• https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-mac
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How%20to%20install%20Ubuntu%20on%20MacBook%20using%20USB%20Stick
• https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#5-etcher-configuration

Tools used:

• dd
• hdiutil and then dd
• etcher

Hey All, I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.

As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.

I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.

Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?

Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!