RE: Unable to Install Debian From CD
sg.au,
I have been trying to install Debina "official" distribution for the
past 2 to 3 days - version 2.2.17
There is no problem with my CD in that installation takes right off
when you boot with the first CD in the drive.
I CANNOT get "Make Linux Bootable Directly From Hard Disk" choice
from the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Main Menu to work.
If I try to boot as is, (CD removed it hangs with "LI" showing on
the screen.
If anyone knows of a Debain distribution that installs/works I would
greatly appreciate that information.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: sg.au@techemail.com [mailto:sg.au@techemail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 11:24 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unable to Install Debian From CD
> 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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