RE: Install problem
This sounds familiar, so here is my experience using libranet.com, a debian
2.2 distro bought directly from Libranet. It seems that support at Libranet
correctly diagnosed this as a hardware problem.
Installed without a hitch on a machine comprising AMD K6/400, 96mb, 40x Acer
CD-ROM.
Failed just as you described on a machine comprising Pentium II/233, 32mb, 8x
Mitsumi CD-ROM.
Swapped CD-ROM's. The Pentium machine still doesn't boot from CD, but at
least i could copy autoboot.bat to my C: drive. Installation ran ok.
Maybe CD speed is a problem.
BTW, the 8x CD runs fine on the other machine.
Good luck,
Bill Barnes
>===== Original Message From chunjiang fu <chunjiangfu@yahoo.com> =====
>Dear debain/linux team:
>I am a new user of linux. I just bought the CD set
>from the linuxmall. But I got a problem when I
>installed it on my intel-486DX66(HD:2.1G, Mem: 21M).
>At the begaining: it could not be booted from the CD.
>I made a flopy disk, it worked well untill to the step
>"installing the kernal and modulas". I intended to
>install it from the CD. I selected the CD-ROM and
>...hdc.... it told me that the cd-rom was not mounted
>successfully. I tried to made a option at the begining
>of boot: linux hdc=cdrom. It did not work. The start
>checking list showed: hdc not response (....xffs=0),
>cdrom (?). next step was the same problem.
>Luckly, after I boot from MSDOS, I could reach the CD
>and boot from it (/install/boot.bat), it was OK untill
>the same step as mentioned above. So, I could not
>install it successfully.
>Please give me a answer asap. It made me a little
>despair.
>By the way, in the instruction, you mentioned disable
>the shadow RAM, but, when my PC boot, it always
>showed: OK RAM shadow although I disabled the
>selection in bios: veido ROM Shadow c0000?: disable. I
>am not sure if the install problem came from it. Also
>give me a answer how to disable it.
>I serched the FAQ, could not find answer.
>My CD-ROM model: sony CDU33A double speed.
>
>Thank you.
>
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