Re: Laptop and Distro Recommendations?
Digby Tarvin wrote:
>>On Friday 14 April 2006 19:21, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Not sure what the Ubuntu folks know that the Debian ones don't, but my
>>>recent experience has been that Ubuntu is better at installing that
>>>Etch....
>>>
>>>
>>Ubuntu is a bit more permissive of activating experimental kernel features
>>than Debian. Nothing to do with the installer, just the difference in
>>philosophy between the projects.
>>
>>Reading the errata for Etch Beta 2 would probably have helped you install
>>it.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for the pointer. It certainly sounded hopeful, but following
>the instructions for the Etch Beta 2 Sata ATAPI workaround didn't
>seem to help. I get exactly the same 'No common CD-ROM drive was detected' :-/
>
>I might give the daily build version a try and see if that gets me any
>further...
>
>Regards,
>DigbyT
>
>
Use the ide-generic, ide-cd, ide-disk modules and keep the rest of the
ide and sata drivers from loading (in expert mode) and you'll be able to
access the CD-ROM.
For some reason the install loads all drivers and then attemps
autodetection, this causes some conflicts between drivers and screws
things up. Which is why the cdrom isnt detected ;)
Once the install is finished you can customize your kernel initrd to
load the proper modules for your hardware.
Stefan
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