A problem with cd-rom drive
Hi all,
Well, I'm new to debian and this list, but have a problem already:-).
Just flame me (in a friendly way, please) if this is not the right venue
for this kind of problem.
Anyway, the story goes like this. I'm setting up Slink in my machine,
and have had some problems, most of them connected to me not having
RTFM, so I'm not gonna complain any:-) I got the installation going up
to the point that I had installed the base system and had rebooted the
machine and up comes dselect. That's where the real problems started. I
put in the 2nd cd (as explained in the install guide) and dselect seemed
to find the packages, but then complained about some missing perl-script
and suggested I'd put cd nr. 1 in the drive. Put whatever I tried I
couldn't get through this level without an error message and couldn't
install anything. I finally decided to reboot to windows and go through
the manuals to see if I'd find any clues. But then sh*t really hits the
fan. The cdrom-drive seems to be unaccessible. This seems to be a
problem in the bios, because I can't even boot with the cdrom-drive, and
linux can't even find it. Does anyone have any clue about what mey have
happened and what I can do to solve it? Yes, the drive IS hooked up and
I can still play audio-cd's with it, so it doesn't seem to have damaged
any.
Hope someone can help.
Gudmundur
Tech. details: Pentium PC, MMX, 32. mb, two harddisks, each about 2.5
Gb.
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