I know it is an old thread...
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:44:21PM +0000, Ben Southwood wrote:
> I am attempting to install debian on my laptop (using woody stable & bf2.4).
> I have included below all of the information I can think of that may be
> relevant:
> I have booted the laptop using cdrom, initial kernel compilaton of kernel
> runs smoothly, installing from cdrom.
> after initial install of kernel, and first reboot my laptop can no longer
> find the cdrom. this occurs just after debian asks if I wish to run Tasksel
> & Deselect for install of additional packages. I select cdrom as my source
> for packages and on next page debian returns the message that /dev/cdrom
> cannot be found.
> I have checked fstab and settings appear correct, ie:
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> I have checked links to /dev/cdrom and this appears to be correctly linked
> to /dev/hdc.
> on boot /dev/hdc appears as my cdrom.
> I can install packages via internet, however as I have only a dial up
> connection and low download allocation this is not really an option.
> Both Redhat & Slackware have installed without a problem, I really do wish
> to have debian on my system though, as it appears to have the best form of
> updating available...
> This is all the information I can think of to provide, if any more detail
> is needed let me know what you need & I will attempt to provide it.
You haven't provided the info that the most recent responders I read,
asked you to, and it's because you don't (or didn't) know how; and it
plainly didn't occur to them that you wouldn't (because you are used to
Slackware and RedHat but not Debian).
What you did not provide was the output/result of trying to manually
`mount' the cdrom drive.
You probably (in my best guess) didn't do this because you didn't know
how to get to a command line in the Debian installer phase. In Debian,
you can always go into "expert" mode (and in my experience, often have
to ;-) by pressing ALT-Fn, where "n" is 2,3,4,5... and that gets you
another tty to login to. Once you are in that command shell, type the
command:
# mount -v /cdrom
and see what happens. You should get SOME clue as to what the system
thinks is happening, if you do that.
Good luck, hope you haven't given up on Debian yet. You CAN most
certainly finish installing Debian from CDROM drive on a laptop; I do it
all the time.
best regards,
Soren Andersen
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