Hello: I recently purchased a laptop from Linux Certified of Sunnyvale California. The Linux Certified model, if anyone is familiar is LC2430S with Intel dual core. The manufacturer Is Compal Information Technology and lists its model # as HL90
I do not like the installation of Ubuntu that came with the machine and want to switch to Debian Etch 4.0 r1 (for AMD64). This machine has dual core Intel processor but as far as I can see the commercial packaged Debian distro I have will work on it. The First problem: I insert the Debian install disc 1 and reboot setting CMOS to boot from cd rom (DVD/CD/RW). All goes well until after setting the language and time zone, etc. Then the cdrom drive cannot be detected. It asks me to specify the driver to look for and in one screen I can do ls /dev and pick the one that represent the cdrom. The problem is that scroll lock does not work as it should, so I cannot see all of the output. I rebooted into Ubuntu and found the cdrom device to be sr0 and in in /dev it is listed as a link to scd0. But that is Ubuntu, not the Debian installer. The Ubuntu system would not be available so I do not know if the same designation applies. The odd academic question is: How is it that the installer cannot detect the cdrom when it is running off the cdrom? Thank you for info, advice, etc Jeff K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
