Bug#279086: installation-reports
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:41, Jocke Selin wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > The install booted up fine, selecting language, keyboard etc worked
> > fine. But then the install detected hardware which didn't give any
> > errors. When it came to "Detect and mount CD-ROM" the install
> reported
> > that it couldn't mount the installation CD-ROM. Retrying does not
> mount
> > the CD-ROM. The CD that's in the drive is the one that I used to boot
> > up with; Debian Installer pre-rc2 mentioned above.
>
> There are several known problems with CD-ROM support that are very
> difficult to fix.
>
> Please first try installing using one of the daily built images from:
> http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
> Also, you should check if there is anything you can use in existing bug
> reports:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=cdrom-detec
> t&archive=no
The problem was resolved by starting the intaller in "linux26"-mode to use
kernel 2.6 when booting. Please see Bug#279311 for successful install.
Cheers and thanks!
JS
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