Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD

[sg.au@techemail.com]

> On 7 Jan 2001 sg.au@techemail.com wrote:
> 
> > I have run dbootstrap from the Debian CD and installed the base system. I've done all the steps up to the point where the system is rebooted. When it reboots from a diskette, it runs the first part of the installation (set up partitions, install base system etc.), but if I try to access the CD, it says CDROM mount failed.
> > 
> > When it boots from the HDD, I see that it finds the CDROM and calls it hdb. But when I run dselect, it only gives three options for access methods:
> > 
> >    nfs       install from an NFS server (not yet mounted)
> >    floppy  install from a pile of floppy disks
> >  * apt     APT acquisition (file,http,ftp)
> > 
> > I want to continue the installation from the CDROM discs resuming at the point where the Debian installation system boots from a Linux HDD, but I do not know how to proceed. Could someone provide assistance? Thank you.
> > 
> > NOTES: The BIOS of my system does not support booting from CDROM. I believe I am using a standard ATAPI IDE drive (Wearnes CDS-2420). The CDROM drive is slaved to the HDD on the primary channel of an add-in IDE controller.
> > 
On Sun, 07 January 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> have you included a /cdrom line in your fstab? If the installation program
> cannot find a cdrom itself, you are able to fix it this way, I think,
> 
> Greetz,
> Sebastiaan
> 
>
>On 7 Jan 2001 sg.au@techemail.com wrote:
>
>Hello there. I have the following line in /etc/fstab:
>/dev/cdrom    /cdrom   iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto    0  0
>
>Thanks, Brad.

I found the problem. It seems that the drive I was using was "compatible" but had to be inisialised by the DOS driver before it would work under Linux. However, I borrowed a CD drive from another computer that Linux supports directly and had no problems with it (the original drive was malfunctioning anyway).

-Brad



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