On Fri 24 Jul 2015 at 20:59:12 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 24/07/2015 20:55, Gary Dale a écrit : > > On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people > >> saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still > >> has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to > >> Detect and mount CD-Rom it keeps saying no common cdrom how can I > >> mount my cdrom and tell the install where it is. It boots and I can > >> see the drive in /dev/disk/by-id I've tried putting this in when it > >> asks where the cdrom is to no avail. please help sorry if this is not > >> formatted well my good keyboard is on the machine I'm trying to > >> install debian. I've tried installing older versions of debain as I > >> saw someone say that the newer kernel doesn't support dell but that > >> wouldn't work either. > >> > >> I'm trying to install Debian-8-from-DVD-and-tried-netinst > >> on a DELL-optiplex-gx280, P4-1.6 > >> > >> tx in advance > > > > If it's having trouble installing from CD, you can try installing from > > USB stick instead. Debian makes it easy by having their .iso files > > bootable from CD or USB. Just cp the .iso to the USB device (not to a > > partition on it). e.g. if your USB stick shows up as /dev/sdd1, cp the > > .iso to /dev/sdd (note the lack of partition number). This will wipe > > out the entire stick, so make sure you don't have anything important > > on it. > > > > > > I thiink you should dd the .iso to the stick, not cp
From https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.txt.en cp debian.iso /dev/sdX cat can also be used. We have no idea how the OP wrote the ISO. If we knew that we might know where the problem lies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/24072015201117.f323ab9b2...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
