Robert Jeffrey Miesen wrote: > Hi all. > > I recently had the misfortune of having to replace my old laptop because > the costs of repairing it were too great to warrent it and purchased a > new Toshiba A105-S4074. Everything works well with one > exception---debian doesn't detect my DVD-Burner. I tried using > 'discover' 'lshw', 'report_hw' and none of them even detect my DVD-Burner. > > I'm not sure why this is, since I test-ran Knoppix v4 on the floor model > before I purchased the new laptop and it ran fine, reading from the > DVD-Burner with no problems. I also was able to run moodle off my > DVD-Burner. However, when I tried to run disk 1 of the Debian v3.1 > "etch" DVD set, it could start up the installer, but the installer could > not detect my DVD-Burner. The same holds true for my installed copy of > Debian. > > Can anyone shed some light onto what might be causing this annoying > situation and how I might fix it? The DVD-Burner in question is what > Toshiba calls a "DL DVD SuperMulti" and I am running linux > v2.6.16-2-686-smp. Thanks in advance. > Hi Robert, try to install debian using a kernel 2.6. This way, the installer will detect more drivers that are only available in 2.6 series. Most likely, the knoppix live cd booted with a 2.6 kernel and therefore it detected the dvd drive. Put your etch cd 1 in place, reboot the laptop and in the prompt, instead of pressing Enter or writing linux, write linux26.
I think you can press F3 to get help if needed. Something similar happened to me with a SATA disk when I installed with the default 2.4 kernel, but with 2.6 kernel, all went ok. Miguel Cobá -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
