Bug#300706: debian sarge (debian-installer system) dvdrom and floppy issues
Christian Mack wrote:
< ... > J. Grant wrote:
>>>>My 3 1/2 inch floppy drive green access LED is permanently on. My
>>>>drive works fine when I reboot into win2k. I noticed that /dev/fd0 is
>>>>missing. Should I just figure out a way to create it using MAKEDEV. Or
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>>I have udevd proces running, I just have the debian sarge defaults
Known issue :-(
Package "udev" will get installed with the "desktop" task.
This can break things on "/dev".
To fix this you have to at least reboot after installation once more.
There is currently work in progress on this issue, so could you try a daily
build, or at least RC3 (when out) and report back?
>>>>My CD/DVD-Writer was not identified by debian-installer. So I manually
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>>Ok, sorry not to include that info in my first post. I did not know
>>ide-scsi is deprecated, all my google searches uncovered suggestions to
>>use ide-scsi. Could you direct me to some info which tells me a better
>>way to set up my IDE NEC CD/DVD writer please..?
To get better SATA support you have to install with "linux26" or "expert26"
on the installation boot prompt, instead of only pressing <Return>.
Could you try this also and report back?
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>>Debian-installer-version: I got netinst, from the debian site around 2005-01-27
>>uname -a: Linux now2g 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:29:52 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>>Date: 2005-01-30 20:00 GMT aprox
>>Method: <How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
>> install, from where? Proxied?>
>>
>>Machine: ASUS K7T880 custom build
>>Processor: AthlonXP 3200+ (2.2Ghz)
>>Memory: 1GB
>>Root Device: /dev/sda3 SATA drive
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Thanks for the full bugreport.
Bye
Christian
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