Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
Alright, now I'm getting a "target installation failed" on the "Install base system" phase. I think it's an issue with my HDD - I never tested it before I installed it. Going to swap in a known good one in a bit.
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> On 03/07/2017 04:54 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
>> 1) did you have the original Apple hard drive and if so, how did you format it?
>
> I actually installed it onto an external Firewire drive. I also don't think at
> all that this is relevant because the firmware issues usually only existed
> on MacOS itself. One of the issues was that on MacOS versions around 7.x,
> Apple's own partitioning tool would refuse to partition a disk if it didn't
> have Apple's original firmware. You could use a patched version of the
> utility to circumvent that.
>
> The disk itself was blank.
>
>> 2) what operating system did you burn the ISO with and how
>
> I burnt the ISO on Linux. Please refrain from using tools like unetbootin
> or similar [1]. Lots of people have done that in the past and created
> broken installer images.
>
> Use a proper CD writing software and the unaltered ISO files directly
> from Debian. Writing the ISO files with the software in OSX should
> work fine as well. I used that in the past, too.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
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