On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > > I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with > windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 months > ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows > > OK, this problem has occured with EVERY version of Linux I have tried. The > first bit of the startup is OK, but it refuses to mount the DVD drive; *nix > all tell me that it must be an 'old' kind of drive' and that I should find a > module or make a boot floppy. > > well, it isn't an old drive. I cant make a boot floppy as I do not have (a) > a floppy drive (b) a working linux system. > > Help, I want Debian ! :) > > (If all else fails tell me the make and model of a $20 DVD rom that WILL > boot debian :) )
Hi Neil, First, will the box boot a USB stick? If so, the installation manual (which you should read first in any case) gives instructions for making a bootable USB stick. There's the short way which gives you a 256 MB filesystem on the stick even if its a 4 GB stick... the long way gives you the same filesystem with 4 GB of space... I did the long way. Once you have the hd-media stuff on the stick, put the netinst.iso file on the stick. This way, you don't even have to burn the CD. Second, you can probably get free or cheap a non-burning (extinguised??) CD drive. Third, I use an LG read/burn anything. It wasn't $20 but it was about $50 CDN. All the tools (that run under dos/win) you need to make a bootable installation system are available in the tools section. See the installation manual. Good luck, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
