Bug#315923: Workaround

[Everett Lipman <debian_bug@lipman.org>]

Here is a workaround that appears to solve all of the
problems I mentioned in the initial report.  This
is necessarily specific to a Dell Dimension 8400 with
similar BIOS (mine is version A01 of 07/17/04).

1. Before booting the install disk, enter the
   BIOS "System Setup".

2. Using the menu, select "Drives".

3. From the resulting submenu, select "SATA Operation".

4. From the 4 operation modes offered, select

   RAID Autodetect / ATA .

   The other three options are

   RAID Autodetect / AHCI
   RAID On
   Combination

5. Boot the install disk.
   
6. At the prompt, enter "expert26".

The rest of the installation went fine, and both the hard
drive and CDROM were found after bootup once installation
was complete.