Re: CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23
> Hi
>
> Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images
> 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets
> error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always
> given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1)
> which explicitly refused to load the cdrom module. The CDROM is ATAPI,
> ASUS CD S400/A and should not need a special driver. The computer is AMD
> K5 -- Debian is hdc secondary master, CDROM is hdd secondary slave.
> CDROM works fine on Mandrake 8.0 which is on a different physical drive
> hda, dual boot using LILO. CDROM works on floppy or CDROM Debian boot
> media, just not from Debian on hdc. I tried to use ftp for access
> thinking to try to compile a different kernel but on the last two tries
> apt-get now cannot name resolve the Debian ftp site. I had gotten
> further with this Debian install and after some effort X-windows was
> working somewhat. I then tried to mess with kernel issues to get the
> CDROM working but I'm not winning.
> As I reread this, sounds like hdc maybe can't reach the CDROM. I'll
> check the hardware, but are there any other insights?
>
For some reason the kernel does not seem to support iso9660 file format.
Could be some module matter.
Have you got an option to choose some other kernel for the installation?
> Richard
>
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