How might I retrieve that?
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > 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 <sjobsro...@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 >>>> <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 >
