RE: Unable to Install Debian From CD
Your problem is likely that you kernel resides on disk above the 1024th
cylinder and your bios cant handle that. You might try creating a small
partition 10-15 megs is more than plenty, and make sure this is the first
partition on your disk and select this partition to be /boot. this will
insure that your kernel will reside on an area of disk that your bios can
handle booting from.
-casey
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote:
> 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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