Hi, You can try Ctrl-Alt+F2 to get to a shell There, dmesg might give you more information on what is happening during the mount ? You can even try a manual mount there to find out what is happening.
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:42 -0400, Kevin C. Redden wrote: > Folks: Tried to install Debian 4.0 r0 on my system, and didn't get very > far. It booted fine, but then after I did this: > > language for installing: English > country or region: Unitied States > Keymap: American English > > then it tries to detect hardware > > Then says: > > your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the > CDROM was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again. > > If you say 'yes' it just gives a blue screen with a white bar on the bottom > and sits there. > No, gives you a menu, which then leads to the same thing. > > I can ctrl-alt-del out of it. > > The drive is a ATAPI CDROM > LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p > > This disk works fine on a IBM T22 Thinkpad, and I'm using it there so the > disk isn't bad. Just can't mount this disk, after it boots. > > Any solutions? Or would it be > > While I have your ear, I want to install this on an old PATA drive in the > system and not on the SATA drives (This is purely experimental at the > moment.) What would I look for when it comes time to accually install? > > Thanks! > > -- Bhasker C V Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org) The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
