I'm using the 100MB netinst boot CD, from 2003/11/9. (The first part of the install (booted from the CD) went fine, installing to what's normally the swap partition on that hard drive :). I told it to have LILO install a bootloader onto the partition, not the whole drive, and added a GRUB menu entry to boot that partition[1]. It booted ok off the hard drive, and base-config configured things ok. When it came time to install more packages, I added an http apt repository, and then let it continue. It prompted: Media change: ... ... insert ... in the drive '/cdrom' and press enter. I did, and it tried again. I then remembered seeing this bug report, so I switched to another console (base-config had already set the root password), editted /etc/fstab to use /dev/cdrom0 instead of /dev/hdc, and switched back to console 1, where I pressed return and the install continued. After that, the install continued to a successful completion (except that I ran out of disk space at one point, because the partition was only 256MB. :) So you don't have to press ^C, but people who are new to debian aren't going to know how to hack fstab. I attached installer.log.gz, FYI. [1] in menu.lst put: title boot hda5 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
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