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 > <glaub...@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 > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
