CD Detection Problem [bug?]
I burned the beta installer 100 MB image to a cd two weeks ago, and have
been trying to complete a net install on my secondary (i386) box for the
past several days. I should mention that I have installed woody on several
boxes without difficulty, and have a working sarge installation on my
primary box (also i386) that I upgraded from the woody base install.
I have a working Seagate hard drive and a working ATAPI cd-rom drive (i.e.
they both work fine when I boot Knoppix), and I have tried several times
--with different IDE configurations--to complete the install from the net
image. My machine boots from the cd-rom just fine, and gets me into the
installer. I get all the way through selecting a mirror and downloading
the base packages when I'm presented with:
[!!] Detecting hardware and loading kernel modules
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
...
Load CD-ROM drivers from a driver floppy?
Of course, not having a floppy which might enable generic ATAPI drives, I
select 'No.' I am presented with:
Manually select a CD-ROM module and device?
Okay. Sure. Why not? Unfortunately on the subsequent list, the only option
is "none." I know right away that this isn't going to work, but on the
following screen I enter "/dev/hdc", or wherever I've put the CD-ROM on
this iteration of the whole process.
And naturally, I'm sent right back to the first screen asking me if I want
to get drivers from a floppy. No further information is furnished.
After I do I all this, I check the fourth virtual console for log
messages, and it's filled with hw-detect messages that various IDE and USB
related modules were detected, loaded, and subsequently not found.
What am I missing? I looked over the recent debian-boot archives, and was
unable to find anything germane, but I'm most likely using all the wrong
search terms.
Cheers,
Jason Whittle
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