I'm putting this back on the list as I don't install from CD's and can't really answer this. I will say though, that if you haven't read the installation docs, you should do so as this is surely answered there. On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:13:10PM -0600, Charles Blair wrote: > Grub seems to be working so that I am able to get at both debian and > windows XP. > great! progress! > When I log into debian and type > > tasksel --new-install > > it asks me for choices, of which I checked "desktop" and "standard". > > It then asks me to put > > Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ _Official Snapshot i386 CD Binary-1 > 20070226-09:38 > > in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter okay. Have you registered the cd's with apt? I don't know how this works, but you have to have the cd's listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list and you may have to also do some other mojo to ge tthe recognised. i'm thinking its something like apt-cd or something like that. > > I do this, and the message remains. It seems not to be recognizing the > CD. My guess is > that somehow it doesn't recognize the appropriate device. I think some > poking around > said that /dev/cdrom was redefined as "hdr" > > I don't think this is causing the problem, but the name of the CD, as > it describes itself, > is slightly different, saying it's "etch" rather than _etch_. > A
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