On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:18 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:27:33AM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:41 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > > > > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying > > > > to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially > > > > recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen > > > > where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the > > > > installation). I've tried various module/device combos but all to no > > > > avail. I've looked about on Google but not come up with a working > > > > solution. > > > > > > > > Has anybody else successfully uses this CDROM drive to install Debian, > > > > or have suggestions on how I can determine a working module/device > > > > combo. Please let me know if you need any further information. > > > > > > I've installed etch amd64 and i386 successfully many times. I'm not sure > > > what > > > the problem is but you might be able to use the daily install from > > > testing to > > > get going. You can get the it from here.. > > > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/ > > > > > > If you get the businesscard iso and boot it in expert mode it will prompt > > > you > > > if you want to install stable, testing or unstable. I would try to > > > install > > > stable and if your successful run "apt-cdrom add" for your cd or dvd > > > images > > > after you boot and install whatever else you want. > > > > > > That image contains nothing but the installer, you need to have an active > > > network connection to install with it. > > > > I've just tried the 'debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso' (build 30 July > > 2007) but it also fails on recognising the CD and network... > > I've seen this before on this list. There are some motherboards now > that have changed the way CD's work. Essentially, they are available > as boot devices, but once the boot starts, the CD drive is no longer > available. Something to do with it not being a true IDE interface, but > emulated IDE over SATA or something and then the bios hides it or some > other goblety-gook like that. I don't think changing the CD drive is > going to help one bit. > > A few things you could try: booting from USB with some kind of > bootable media with the installer on it there; dragging the harddrive > to a different machine and donig the base install there and then > completing it on the new machine (warning, this may require more than > just an install -- you may need to build special initrd's to include > _ALL_ modules to boot on the new machine); scrounge a floppy drive and > use the netinstall floppies to get yourself going; setting up the > installer on a network and netbooting into it. > > Can you get a live-cd to boot? I'd be surprised as I assume they > suffer from the same problem, but if you could get one to go, then use > debootstrap to install. > > There may be other solutions, but that's what I've got.
The machine came with fedora on (which can read (and write) to the CD/DVD drive). If I burn a ubuntu installer CD that can use the CD okay too (I've not fully installed ubuntu at this moment). I'll check what debootstrap does. Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
