This sounds familiar, so here is my experience using libranet.com, a debian 2.2 distro bought directly from Libranet. It seems that support at Libranet correctly diagnosed this as a hardware problem.
Installed without a hitch on a machine comprising AMD K6/400, 96mb, 40x Acer CD-ROM. Failed just as you described on a machine comprising Pentium II/233, 32mb, 8x Mitsumi CD-ROM. Swapped CD-ROM's. The Pentium machine still doesn't boot from CD, but at least i could copy autoboot.bat to my C: drive. Installation ran ok. Maybe CD speed is a problem. BTW, the 8x CD runs fine on the other machine. Good luck, Bill Barnes >===== Original Message From chunjiang fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Dear debain/linux team: >I am a new user of linux. I just bought the CD set >from the linuxmall. But I got a problem when I >installed it on my intel-486DX66(HD:2.1G, Mem: 21M). >At the begaining: it could not be booted from the CD. >I made a flopy disk, it worked well untill to the step >"installing the kernal and modulas". I intended to >install it from the CD. I selected the CD-ROM and >...hdc.... it told me that the cd-rom was not mounted >successfully. I tried to made a option at the begining >of boot: linux hdc=cdrom. It did not work. The start >checking list showed: hdc not response (....xffs=0), >cdrom (?). next step was the same problem. >Luckly, after I boot from MSDOS, I could reach the CD >and boot from it (/install/boot.bat), it was OK untill >the same step as mentioned above. So, I could not >install it successfully. >Please give me a answer asap. It made me a little >despair. >By the way, in the instruction, you mentioned disable >the shadow RAM, but, when my PC boot, it always >showed: OK RAM shadow although I disabled the >selection in bios: veido ROM Shadow c0000?: disable. I >am not sure if the install problem came from it. Also >give me a answer how to disable it. >I serched the FAQ, could not find answer. >My CD-ROM model: sony CDU33A double speed. > >Thank you. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
