Bug#240963: failed to find CD after boot; successful network install
Sorry, the machine that I installed on and submitted that report from, currently has its harddrive full with 40GB of movies and music. It is running Fedora Core 2. I do plan on switching to Debian once Sarge goes stable.
Anyway, after I submitted that report, another release candidate of the Sarge installer was released, and I tried that. It fixed most of my issues. However, some of my "bugs" weren't necessarily bugs... but they should at least be considered "wrinkles" in the installer, which should be ironed out.
1. The audio problems turned out to be due to the fact that my user account wasn't a member of the audio (or what is "sound") group. Hence it didn't have priveleges to open /dev/dsp. Adding the account to that group made sound work. My only suggestion is to consider letting newly made accounts be a member of the audio group by default. Makes it easier on us newbs.
2. The CD detection problem wasn't that my CD drive wasn't detected. It was that I have two drives: CDRW drive and a DVD drive. I can't remember which drive the Debian disk was in, but when it came to package installation... the installer was looking at the wrong drive. It would have been more user-friendly, if it "knew" which drive the CD was in when there were multiple CD drives.
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> Hi,
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> first and foremost: thank you for your bug report
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240963>
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> I'm currently processing old installation reports, and since you
> reported some problems with the debian installer back in March, I would
> very much appreciate it, if you could find time to download and test
> the latest[1] cd image and confirm whether you still see the problems
> you've mentioned.
>
> If you can confirm they are no longer present, I will close this report.
>
> Much has changed with the installer since March, and it is not unlikely
> that the problems you mention have been dealt with by the Debian
> Developers working on the installer.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you again. Thank you for your time.
>
> [1]http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/
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