Command-line arguments for CD drive

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even though it will boot and install from same. For the third time I have trashed everything and started the installation from scratch. I now think my trouble may be to do with command-line arguments for the drive. The drive is a

Command-line arguments fro CD

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting Debian to recognise my CD-drive, even though it will boot and install from same. For the third time I have trashed everything and started the installation from scratch. I now think my trouble may be to do with command-line arguments for the drive. The drive is a

CD drive not recognised

Can somebody please help? I'm a Linux newbie doing a first-time setup of Potato. I changed my bios to allow CDROM boot and was able to begin installation from the CD. The machine will now boot from the hard disk, rescue disk etc. and I am now at the apt configuration stage, but Linux apparently c