Re: Bug#740073: netinst hangs on scanning CD-ROM
> From: Atanas Kumbarov <kumbarov@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:23:50 +0100
> Hi,
> I've been having the same problem for several days. I am trying to
install Debian 8 amd64 from the netinst image on an ASUS UL30A with both
VMware Player and VirtualBox atop Debian 7 > and the installer stalls
when scanning the CD-ROM.
>
> Regards,
> AK
Process stops at 11%?
If so it's because the apt-cdrom part of the debian installer is borked
and it's sitting there waiting for you to add another CD-ROM, but
there's no way you can send Enter to it.
A work-around is to:-
;Open a terminal
;ps | grep apt-cdrom
;note the PID of "apt-cdrom ident"
;kill -KILL $PID
;return to the installation screen and hit "Continue".
Thanks to Slavko for pointing to the solution
Now all I have to do is find a way to workaround the borked
choose-mirror section, which fails regardless of which mirror is
selected with "mirror does not support the specified release (jessie)"
(though the mirror does support it). Then maybe I can fix the next bork
"unable to locate package (popularity-contest, grub-common, etc, etc)" -
which stops the installer from being able to install GRUB, or lilo.
'Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20140224-04:27'
Kind regards
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