On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:01:45PM +0930, Mike Hore wrote: > I wrote: > >I wrote: > >> > >>Now to work out what CD driver package I should be using... > >I'm still stuck at this point. My iMac G5 has its CD-ROM drive on the > >ATA bus. What am I supposed to do when the installer asks me what > >driver to use? > > > >I really need some newbie-type step-by-step help on doing a netinstall > >-- like even when I get to the shell prompt, what do I do next to get, > >say, KDE installed? > >The manual seems a bit unimformative. > > I really need some help here. > > The installer sets up my language, keyboard etc. It then says it can't > detect a "common CD-ROM drive". I have no idea why it's trying to do > this at this point, or why it can't detect the drive it's just booted > off.
Linux didn't load linux from the CD into RAM. The bootloader did. For Linux to be able to see the cdrom, it needs the proper cdrom modules. > The manual doesn't mention this step, as far as I can tell. > Anyway it asks me if I want to install a driver on a floppy (which of > course the iMac doesn't have), or do a netinstall. Well of course I'm > TRYING to do a netinstall!!! It was quite some time since I explored this, but I think the netinstall flavour of debian-installer means: 1. Boot the installer from cd (or usb, or whatever your installation medium is) 2. load packages in "base" from cd 3. load all other packages from internet. For step 2 to work, the cdrom-module Linux needs to read from your CD-device must be available in the initrd, which is loaded into RAM by the bootloader. So to solve the issue, find out what the driver is needed and file a bug-report that the driver is not included in the initrd. > It also says I can manually pick a driver from the /dev directory. On > looking there, I don't see anything that looks like ATA. (re)post this message on debian-boot if you haven't already. This "pick a driver from /dev" is news to me, can't help you with that one. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
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