I was eager to try the new installer for sarge, and I also had to do an install on a Dell Brio (Celeron 733MHz, a couple of years old). So I thought I would kill two birds with one stone. I downloaded sarge-i386-netinst-iso from gluck on November 11th and burned it to CD.
I got nowhere at all, though, with the installation, since I couldn't get the machine to boot off the CD. When it got to the point where it should've booted from the CD, the system hung for a while, then reported that no bootable CD was found, and booted instead from the HD (into Windows 98). The boot order is specified in the BIOS as (1) floppy (2) CD (3) HD. Mounting the CD on a different machine (current Debian testing), and inspecting its file-system, revealed no signs of trouble or corruption. I tried to boot off this CD many, many times but with no success. Then I tried downloading a fresh image and burning that to a fresh CD. Same problem. I don't think that the problem is (entirely) with the machine, since I ended up doing the install from a set of woody CDs and it booted just fine from Disc 5 of that series, and the install went very smoothly afterwards (in the old-fashioned way). The CD drive has no obvious problems (it now works fine, as far as I can tell, under the newly installed Debian testing). It is identified as: hdc: FX4830T, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive by the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, and as: MITSUMI CD-ROM FX4830T!B by Windows 98. I've seen occasional reports of difficulties that Dell machines have with isolinux. None of these concern the Brio, though, and none of the reports I've found look much like this (mostly, the boot process goes at least a certain distance before failing). Very puzzled, Jim McCloskey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
