On (12/01/07 18:21), Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > Apart from having to disable autodetect of the Cdrom to get the media > > to boot, > > Hmm. Can you elaborate on that a bit? This could possibly help other as > well. > Was this a BIOS setting you had to disable? What is the exact name of that > setting and what does it do? Any idea why it interferes with booting the > installer?
This is definitely specific to the machine; it has a DVDrom and a CDRW. It wouldn't boot from the DVDrom any of the following: Knoppix 4.0.2 or 5.1 Ubuntu 5.10 Beatrix IX_2005 Debian-31.r0a and others So I disabled 'autodetect' in the BIOS for the DVDrom and booted off the CDRW. The box is now a functioning file and IMAP server and I'd rather avoid rebooting it to give you the exact BIOS details but if you still need them, let me know. The DVDrom seems to be detected at boot with the installed OS; I re-enabled autodetect afterwards; I'm not sure it made any difference. > > pciutils wasn't installed by default. > > It is installed I think if you select the Desktop task. It is not part of > the base system, nor priority standard, so why should D-I decide on its > own to install it? It shouldn't except that when I was completing the installation report I needed it to give the output of lspci :) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
