Re: installing on ASUS K8N-E Deluxe
> The AMD64 install had another major obstacle, the installer did not find the
> release file. It was looking in (typing from memory) debian/dists//Release,
> which does not exist on the CD. I think the double slash is a clue, the
> distribution (sarge, sid, whatever) is missing here. I didn't want to
There appears to be a problem in cdrom-retriever's logic
I think this ultimately comes from the kernel; some cdroms do not
work well with DMA turned on. Additionally, cdrom-retriever doesn't
do a good job of handling this (admittedly rare) case.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267168
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271976
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