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Re: Problems installing on AMD Athlon 64 system



On 12/21/05, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/21/05, Aaron Stromas <passogiau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/21/05, Goswin von Brederlow
> <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > Aaron Stromas < passogiau@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > >> So that's okay...  Have you checked the motherboard documentation -
> > >> there are a few m-board BIOS controlled things that when enabled
> > >> prevent writing to the boot sector of the hard drive (a virus
> > >> protection thing).
> > >
> > > no, i didn't do that.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Also, check your CD/DVD drive, since the I/O Error message could be
> > >> indicating that your CD/DVD drive isn't working.  I know I have a lot
> > >> of old drives that don't work.  Frys Electronics was having major
> > >> problems with drives made by "Emperex."  It really very well could be
> > >> a problem with your hardware, though during the install process it is
> > >> *very* difficult to diagnose whether it's software or hardware
> > >> difficulties, since both are very often at fault.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > well, it's a brand new box with RH x86_64 Fedora 3 on it...
> >
> > Can you mount the Debian CD under RH? That would show the drive can
>
>
> RH is history :). You're right, though, when I mounted the CD I saw the .iso
> image file. I did have bad (unbootable) CDs but I'm past that at this point.
> I'm getting close, I think. Will also try the new etch image later today.
> Thanks,

So I was right?  In /mnt/cdrom or whatever ls reads something like
/mnt/cdrom/debianamd64installwhatever.iso
?

you nailed it :)
 
-a

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