Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks
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> On Mar 8, 2017, at 6:33 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:17:11PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:31:15PM -0800, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote:
>>> Here's a photo of the pertinent section: http://i.imgur.com/hHZyDfg.jpg
>>
>> Various components and scripts load by the installer are crashing. This is
>> most likely due to a broken toolchain during build. It could be related
>> to PIE being enabled for the toolchain by default [1].
>
> Or the machine has bad ram. But certainly a toolchain problem is
> possible, although I would have thought others would have hit that
> already if that was the case.
>
>> Please let me know which version of Debian you were trying to install. I
>> need to know the exact name and source of the ISO image and how the image
>> was burnt. Please always provide this information in the future as otherwise
>> it very difficult to track down the issue.
>>
>> However, if these specific error messages are reproducible with *any*
>> version of Debian (Squeeze, Wheezy, Jessie), it's most likely a hardware
>> issue and you should perform some memory and CPU testing.
>
> Yeah testing with something else is a good idea.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
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