Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Martin Bright <mjbright@liverpool.ac.uk>]

I managed to install on my Dell Inspiron 6000 using these instructions, 
which are quite simple:

<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto>

After installation, I recompiled a custom kernel with ata_piix built in - 
this meant I could get rid of the whole initrd thing, which seems 
unnecessarily complicated in this situation.  I gather it might make things 
easier when I get round to trying suspend-to-disk as well.

If you do compile ata_piix into your kernel, you'll need to arrange for a 
boot option
 libata.atapi_enabled=1
to be passed to the kernel.  Alternatively, there are various simple 
patches around (do this _before_ you compile!) which enable it by default.

Martin Bright

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Martin Bright
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool