Hi, Stephen Muscarella wrote: > > When the flash is complete in balenaEtcher, it says files cannot be read by > > the system and when I look at the size of the USB bootable it becomes like > > 2-3 MB and looks corrupted.
It might be that balenaEtcher interprets too much. Probably it shows only the EFI System Partition which is 2832 KiB size. The ISO partition has type 0x00 to hide it from EFI which would hate that it encloses the EFI partition. > > Nevertheless, I booted into the debian installation and the interface does > > appear showing "Install Debian" This indicates that the early stages of booting work, including the stage when the ISO filesystem is mounted to make the installation files accessible. > > although the screen is zoomed out really > > far. When I hit enter and it brings up the select language screen in the > > Debian installation, the screen is still zoomed out really far and the > > mouse or keyboard are unresponsive. This looks like the installation files are not fully suitable for the machine. A very broad statement, i confess, and not pointing to any remedy, i fear. Charles Curley wrote: > I suspect corruption during downloading. Did you check the checksums? > https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify For the checksums, This text talks of "optical media" (e.g. /dev/sr0) but also applies to USB sticks and other disk-like storage devices (e.g. /dev/sdc). Important is to read from the device exactly the same amount of data as the copied ISO image file has. Nearly all storage media will return more bytes that were written from the ISO image file. Those extra bytes would spoil the checksum. > I'm no expert on Macs, but I see on that page > debian-mac-10.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso. Are you getting the right > architecture? The "mac" ISOs just lack EFI equipment, which is said to confuse some older Macs. They contain no special Mac software. Since Stephen's USB stick booted, i think that the normal BIOS+EFI netinst ISO is the right thing to use. Have a nice day :) Thomas
