Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by mrfusion on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:39PM (#25462409)

I’ve got a bricked 2008 Mac mini. Still runs perfectly fine but I can’t seem to get the os updated. They say they don’t support it? And you can’t seem to access websites with a browser that old and I can’t seem to install a new browser on that old of an Os.

I can’t even get linux to install. It won’t seem to boot to a usb.

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by peterburkimsher on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:06PM (#25462600)

The newest Mac OS for a 2008 Mac Mini (A1176) is 10.7.5. It should be possible to boot from USB by holding option when it starts.

Some versions of Linux will work with the 32-bit EFI, but maybe not the latest versions. Try burning Ubuntu 10 to a CD, and you can probably get it to boot (holding option and choosing the disk, or holding C to boot from CD).

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Re:Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for mac... by heavyset_go on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:39PM (#25462824)

> I can’t even get linux to install. It won’t seem to boot to a usb.

Install rEFInd and look for Linux images that will boot on machines with 32-bit EFI. Debian has one.

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