Re: hosed installation - starting over

Peter wrote: I've somehow completely hosed my Debian stable system, and I don't seem even to have a 'base-config' package any more. It boots, but no X server. Also, I don't have a working CD-ROM. Where do I go from here, presuming I want to install stable? Duh. Never mind. A few minutes' unp

harware question - cd-rom error message

Debian stable. CD/DVD drive appears to be crapping out. dmesg shows: [snip] hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: packet command error: error=