Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
2009/6/9 <shadesofg...@midmaine.com <mailto:shadesofg...@midmaine.com>>
I have the CD set. It was installed fine on my old machine. I'm
trying to
install on a new pc. It is a Dell with a dvd/cd drive (TSST corp).
On the
first cd it asks for the cd, but it is already reading the cd! And
I can't
get past this, even when it asks for a list of cd's and I select none.
mean it can read the cd - who cares if its not one on its list?
How do I
do the install?
Thanks,
Bob
Bob, is your CD/DVD drive cable is SATA? Last year I tried to install
Etch, it didn't recognize my SATA DVD drive. Use Lenny installer CD
instead like Andrei suggested.
i had the same issue with a "Asus P5K WS" mobo 2 years ago, it should be
working with Lenny as i was told, but since lenny was still not stable
then i worked around it using a USB stick to do the install
if you insist on installing Etch you could follow the notes below i made
at that time but better to try Lenny first anyway i guess
To download the installer we do as follows
$ wget
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
and we will also need the same iso file as when making an installation cd
$ wget
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-40r2-amd64-netinst.iso
The exact mountpoint of the usb can be found with
$ fdisk -l
Assuming your usb is mounted as /dev/sda we can extract the boot.img.gz
to the usb stick.
$ zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
Then mount the usb.
# mount /dev/sda /mnt
when this is done simply copy the .iso to the same usb disk
# cp debian-40r2-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt
and then unmount the usb stick
# umount /mnt
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