> The installer fails to detect the CD drive (actually a DVD+RW drive, a > Sony DW-Q58A). The drive is a PCI IDE drive. The thing is, that an old > Sarge/Testing image (date 01/08/2004, ie: before Sarge was released) > correctly detects the drive, and happily installs Debian on that Laptop.
To other D-I people: could this be related to us dropping discover? And, indeed, *have we* finally dropped discover? :-) This bug probably deserves more investigation. My answer is mostly here for enhancing this..:-)