Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
Wait!
I don't think it's an HDD issue.
Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the installation process?
This will include the actual error messages.
Adrian
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <sjobsrocks@me.com> wrote:
>
> 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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