I had a problem similar to yours, solved by changing to another HD with Apple firmware.
Il 07/mar/2017 09:15 AM, "Nicholas Dal Porto" <macmani...@comcast.net> ha scritto: > Hi guys, > > I've spent the last few days attempting to install Debian on some old > Powerbooks I have laying around. They're all invariably failing, and I have > no clue why. Some hang on loading the partition formatter, others cannot > get past "Install the base system" (debootstrap return value 1). I've tried > at least 25 different ISO files. In case it's something I'm doing when I > try to burn it, I'm borrowing a CD drive so I can test with another > computer. Looking at the symptoms I'm leaning towards messed up CD burning > but does anyone have any other ideas? >