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Re: Strange CD-ROM installation problem



Adrian Wiesmann wrote:
> I just d/l the sarge-i386-netinst.iso from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/
> (20.4.2004) burned it onto a CD and booted my laptop.
> 
> The installation system is a Thinkpad A30 with a 40GB Maxtor HDD and a
> default CD ROM drive and internal network card. The CD did boot fine
> without any hassle. The startup screen appeared and after pressing ENTER
> the installation process started. It went fine and seemed to detect the
> hardware nicely (even the internal networking card which was PITA before).
> 
> But then the installer came up with the message, that it could not load
> the driver for the CD ROM (which is a bit pervert in my eyes for the
> system telling me it could not load the correct driver just booted with
> the CD ROM drive..) It then tried to mod load some drivers which all did
> not work. After that I could have supplied a driver on a floppy or change
> to a non PCI or non SCSI driver.
> 
> So these are my questions. Did I miss something? Why could it boot but did
> not detect the CD ROM? Or is it a bug which should be adressed? Is there
> anything I should try?

Yesterday's daily builds were broken, you got an image that does not
know how to load any kernel modules.

-- 
see shy jo

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