Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
How might I retrieve that?
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> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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> Wait!
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> I don't think it's an HDD issue.
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> Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the installation process?
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> This will include the actual error messages.
>
> Adrian
>
>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <sjobsrocks@me.com> wrote:
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>> 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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