Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p
Hi,
You can try Ctrl-Alt+F2 to get to a shell
There, dmesg might give you more information on
what is happening during the mount ?
You can even try a manual mount there to find out what is happening.
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:42 -0400, Kevin C. Redden wrote:
> Folks: Tried to install Debian 4.0 r0 on my system, and didn't get very
> far. It booted fine, but then after I did this:
>
> language for installing: English
> country or region: Unitied States
> Keymap: American English
>
> then it tries to detect hardware
>
> Then says:
>
> your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the
> CDROM was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again.
>
> If you say 'yes' it just gives a blue screen with a white bar on the bottom
> and sits there.
> No, gives you a menu, which then leads to the same thing.
>
> I can ctrl-alt-del out of it.
>
> The drive is a ATAPI CDROM
> LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p
>
> This disk works fine on a IBM T22 Thinkpad, and I'm using it there so the
> disk isn't bad. Just can't mount this disk, after it boots.
>
> Any solutions? Or would it be
>
> While I have your ear, I want to install this on an old PATA drive in the
> system and not on the SATA drives (This is purely experimental at the
> moment.) What would I look for when it comes time to accually install?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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Bhasker C V
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The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.
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