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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > How might I retrieve that? > > > > > Sent from my iPhone >> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:32 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>>>> <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] >>>> `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] >>>> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >>
