@1c4251ca thank you! 

 @bf3866a1 thank you - sounds MOST excellent 

 @c477be4d No! Look forward to listening to that 

 @4d809b9a and the last install just failed with -666 seconds remaining… 

 Will it heck as like. This iMac is cursed. I am starting to see why someone left it out for the refuse collection.

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 @3401c67a my copy has the labels stuck to the wrong sides. 

 @bfe205e8 I was just thinking how much the bass player looks like Norman Cook. That would explain it. 

 Actually moved to tears by Radiohead. Bloody marvellous. Isn’t it? #totp 

 @531f5a72 Roger! 

 @531f5a72 Oh that's a thought! Thank you, I'll have one more crack at installing MacOS from an external drive then look at that. 

 @531f5a72 Ah that's interesting - bit of pain but I might give that a go. Partitioning in half didn't work - one half gave same errors as before, other half gives odd App Store type download failure errors. I wonder if there are TWO issues going on here, faulty drive AND something with certificates. 

 @eb057e21 Good thought, I'll see if I can find a spare external disk drive and see if I can install the OS to that, reboot off it and use that to prepare a new install on the internal drive 

 @7e2b7c22 Well new error messages has to be progress, right? 

 @fcdb09df The issues feel very Mac-specific to me, I'm not sure even if I could boot it to Linux it would help. Disks all need to be in Mac format. 

 Found an old Firewire drive at the back of a drawer - will this faulty iMac let me install Sierra on to it, since it won't let me install it on the internal drive?

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/190/005/729/934/778/original/dcd00fd9afb9cd83.jpeg 

 @531f5a72 I'm trying re-setting the parameter RAM next, then will look at partitioning. (My attempts to make a bootable Sierra install USB pen drive have failed also.) 

 @531f5a72 There’s no error code I can see. Does this every time at -399 seconds:

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 Parameter RAM reset didn't make any difference. Tried partitioning the disk, one fails as before, the other has given two new error messages so far. WiFi is connected, it's impossible to run the installer without internet.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/187/208/401/598/853/original/46a45a93ea46e634.jpeg

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 @531f5a72 disk utility gives a clean bill of health - but I don’t believe it! 

 I wonder if this is relevant. Resetting the NVRAM may be worth a try?

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/186/292/405/887/134/original/f1e11599c5ffa4b3.png 

 ...as expected...

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 @5ad750c8 Ah - that's interesting, thank you. I did run Disk Utility which came up as ok. But disk failure sounds very plausible. 

 @531f5a72 Internet recovery doesn't seem to be working either, I think the hard drive may be failing (although it does boot, this could explain why it was dumped!) 

 @531f5a72 thank you - will try that next! 

 @531f5a72 Recovery partition on the computer itself. WiFi is connected. 

 Not expecting this to work, but as local and internet Sierra recovery options aren't working, I've got it to boot off a Snow Leopard install DVD. Here goes nothing. Very slowly...

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 @9757430f yes I think it does - don't think I have any other display port devices though 

 @eb057e21 It is shocking. 

 Hmmm, keeps doing this, right at the end of re-installing Sierra in recovery mode. With -399 seconds remaining...

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 It's a Apple iMac "Core i5" 2.5 21.5" (Mid-2011) - looks like it can run MacOS 10.6.6 to 10.13??? https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.5-21-inch-aluminum-mid-2011-thunderbolt-specs.html

I have some older OS X install disks, not sure how to go about wiping this as I don't have the passwords. 

 @560be123 Thank you - found it! 

 Thank you all - found it! Printed under base plate 

 @afb61f5c I didn't know it was a US pronunciation! 

 Oh no one of the contestants is doing it as well. Grrrr. #gbbo 

 @1699e3b2 Oh that sounds AMAZING! 

 @3ec37067 @1aff86a7 we’re just joking about the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and David Tennant. 

 @1aff86a7 The very same! 

 @e1eff745 Good idea. 

 Can't read 3 different floppies... so I'm going to guess that the floppy drive - the only part that really interested me - may be dead. Not sure I can even be bothered to take the hard drive out of this. It's going to my front yard freecycle tomorrow. 

 Can I finally open my 2001 Christmas card? I cannot. 'No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk.' Wrong format? Faulty disk? Faulty drive? Who knows.

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 @9757430f ooooh 

 @619aeaf4 I am seriously considering selling my entire vinyl collection as prices are surely at their peak. Keeping my CDs because you can't give them away. And I love CDs.