Bug#240932: (fwd) RE: ide troubles

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

> ----- Forwarded message from Will Lentz <Will_Lentz@Trimble.com> -----
>
> Of course, now I get an error message saying:
> "Failed to copy file from CDROM, Retry?"
> and Alt-F4 shows:
> grep:
> /cdrom/dists//Release
>
> : No such file or directory

This means that cdrom-detect ("Detect and mount CD-ROM" in the menu) did 
not run correctly.

If it does run correctly, you should have a line like:
    cdrom-detect: Detected CD with '$suite' distribution
(with $suite being testing) in /var/log/syslog.

Suggest you check what happens at that stage of the installation.