Re: CDROM problems with installer 2.2.23
On Monday 17 September 2001 09:37 pm, Shaul Karl wrote:
It sounds like you need to recompile and add iso9660 support. That is the
standard error. One quick way to check is to take out the media when
booting. A simple recompile however should fix it.
Topp Dogg
> > Hi
> >
> > Have installed potato(carefully,multiple times) using boot floppy images
> > 2.2.23 from CDROM. On reboot, apt-get tries to access packages and gets
> > error: "fs iso9660 not supported by kernel". Using mount has always
> > given the same error. I tried using an older version installer (2.1)
> > which explicitly refused to load the cdrom module. The CDROM is ATAPI,
> > ASUS CD S400/A and should not need a special driver. The computer is AMD
> > K5 -- Debian is hdc secondary master, CDROM is hdd secondary slave.
> > CDROM works fine on Mandrake 8.0 which is on a different physical drive
> > hda, dual boot using LILO. CDROM works on floppy or CDROM Debian boot
> > media, just not from Debian on hdc. I tried to use ftp for access
> > thinking to try to compile a different kernel but on the last two tries
> > apt-get now cannot name resolve the Debian ftp site. I had gotten
> > further with this Debian install and after some effort X-windows was
> > working somewhat. I then tried to mess with kernel issues to get the
> > CDROM working but I'm not winning.
> > As I reread this, sounds like hdc maybe can't reach the CDROM. I'll
> > check the hardware, but are there any other insights?
>
> For some reason the kernel does not seem to support iso9660 file format.
> Could be some module matter.
> Have you got an option to choose some other kernel for the installation?
>
> > Richard
> >
> >
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