Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC
On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit :
> > On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people
> >> saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still
> >> has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to
> >> Detect and mount CD-Rom it keeps saying no common cdrom how can I
> >> mount my cdrom and tell the install where it is. It boots and I can
> >> see the drive in /dev/disk/by-id I've tried putting this in when it
> >> asks where the cdrom is to no avail. please help sorry if this is not
> >> formatted well my good keyboard is on the machine I'm trying to
> >> install debian. I've tried installing older versions of debain as I
> >> saw someone say that the newer kernel doesn't support dell but that
> >> wouldn't work either.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to install Debian-8-from-DVD-and-tried-netinst
> >> on a DELL-optiplex-gx280, P4-1.6
> >>
> >> tx in advance
> >
> > If it's having trouble installing from CD, you can try installing from
> > USB stick instead. Debian makes it easy by having their .iso files
> > bootable from CD or USB. Just cp the .iso to the USB device (not to a
> > partition on it). e.g. if your USB stick shows up as /dev/sdd1, cp the
> > .iso to /dev/sdd (note the lack of partition number). This will wipe
> > out the entire stick, so make sure you don't have anything important
> > on it.
> >
> >
>
> I thiink you should dd the .iso to the stick, not cp
From
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.txt.en
cp debian.iso /dev/sdX
cat can also be used.
We have no idea how the OP wrote the ISO. If we knew that we might know
where the problem lies.
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