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> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > From the installer menu, choose "Execute a shell". Then run the "bash" > command to get a proper shell. > > From there, navigate to /var/log and locate the syslog file. You should be > able to upload that file using the scp command. > > Adrian > >> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <macmani...@comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >
