cdrom problem installing etch

[Daniele]

Hi all

I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba M40 
laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.
Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the 
installation without any problem until the detection and mounting of the 
cdrom drive. It complains that there is no driver for the cdrom. 
I have never had this kind of problem installing sarge!  :-(
As far as I know my DVD-RW drive should be a quite common EIDE device

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Daniele



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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[李一]

I used to have the same problem on my ibm r52.maybe this will be useful for u:SATA and debian



To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.orgSubject: SATA and debianFrom: Juan Pi�eros <
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Dear all,I just wanted to post to you an information about how I managed to install debian/testing (netinstall) with 2.6.12 kernel, without recompiling it.The problem: I have a sata disk (ibm thinkpad R52). If you follow the normal 
installation, it will not work because the disk or the cd drive will not be recognized.Solution in short: load your ide* modules before the ata_piix module, by using an initrdSolution details:
- boot in expert mode for installation- disable the ata_piix module, this will allow you to have your cd driver recognized- after some menus, debian installer will ask you again if ata_piix module must be enabled. Say yes this time. Your sata disk is now working.
- finish the installation and reboot- now your cd drive is not working- change your /etc/mkinitrd/modules files (put there the ide* modules necessary for your cd drive)- run mkinitrd command to rebuild your initrd
- remove the ide* modules from /etc/modules- reboot, now both cd and disk are ok.Juan.




2006/5/17, Daniele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi allI am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba M40laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the
installation without any problem until the detection and mounting of thecdrom drive. It complains that there is no driver for the cdrom.I have never had this kind of problem installing sarge!  :-(As far as I know my DVD-RW drive should be a quite common EIDE device
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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Clive Menzies]

On (17/05/06 10:03), Daniele wrote:
> I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba 
> M40 
> laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.
> Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the 
> installation without any problem until the detection and mounting of the 
> cdrom drive. It complains that there is no driver for the cdrom. 
> I have never had this kind of problem installing sarge!  :-(
> As far as I know my DVD-RW drive should be a quite common EIDE device
> 
> Any suggestions?

There's no need to reinstall.  Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list changing
sarge to etch.  Then do

$ sudo aptitude update

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Regards

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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Stefan Srdic]

Daniele wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba M40 
>laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.
>Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the 
>installation without any problem until the detection and mounting of the 
>cdrom drive. It complains that there is no driver for the cdrom. 
>I have never had this kind of problem installing sarge!  :-(
>As far as I know my DVD-RW drive should be a quite common EIDE device
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Daniele
>
>
>
>  
>
Daniele,

There has recently been a lot of new "laptop" users who've had the
exact same problem. If you search the May 2006 archives you should find
the information that your looking for.  Also, the D-I team has a
workaround available:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataAtapiHowto

I have an M40  (JM8) as well, after the installation issues everything
was fine. Everything works (including the ICH6 modem and media card
reader) except for the firewire interface.

Stefan


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Re: [Fwd: Re: networking question : wpa_supplicant, ifplugd and interfaces]

[Stefan Srdic]

B Thomas wrote:

>If you are refering to the debian package hotplug. I do not have that
>installed (should I ?).
>
>  
>
Actually, I confused hotplug with discover ;) If you want you can
configure discover to skip the loading of the ipw3945 module by adding
skip ipw3945 to /etc/discover.conf

Then you can either manually load the wifi driver when needed or simply
add the module to /etc/modules and it will be loaded at boot.

Stefan


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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Hector Scaramelli]

Daniele wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I am an old Debian user and I would like to update a little bit my Toshiba M40 
>laptop. I am trying to install etch (now I have sarge) on the Toshiba.
>Unfortunately the etch installer is unable to mount the cdrom. It begins the 
>installation without any problem until the detection and mounting of the 
>cdrom drive. It complains that there is no driver for the cdrom. 
>I have never had this kind of problem installing sarge!  :-(
>As far as I know my DVD-RW drive should be a quite common EIDE device
>  
>
>Any suggestions?
>  
>


What happen if you try to install sarge using the same drive??

Hector

>Thanks,
>Daniele
>
>
>
>  
>


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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Martin Bright]

I managed to install on my Dell Inspiron 6000 using these instructions, 
which are quite simple:




After installation, I recompiled a custom kernel with ata_piix built in - 
this meant I could get rid of the whole initrd thing, which seems 
unnecessarily complicated in this situation.  I gather it might make things 
easier when I get round to trying suspend-to-disk as well.


If you do compile ata_piix into your kernel, you'll need to arrange for a 
boot option

 libata.atapi_enabled=1
to be passed to the kernel.  Alternatively, there are various simple 
patches around (do this _before_ you compile!) which enable it by default.


Martin Bright

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Re: networking question : wpa_supplicant, ifplugd and interfaces -- solved

[B Thomas]

Hi,
Thanks to all your replies. Here is what the problem turned out to be
and how I solved. 

The problem was that the kernel hotplug dispatcher loads ipw3945 
too early and without invoking modprobe. To fix it a file -
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ipw3945 needs to be created with the sole
content being a single line containing ipw3945. Also it is better to
start wpa_supplicant very late in the boot process after ifplugd (this
is contrary to the suggestion in the wpa_supplicant documentation ).

Thanks again.
B Thomas



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Re: cdrom problem installing etch

[Charles Muller]

Clive Menzies wrote:


There's no need to reinstall.  Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list changing
sarge to etch.  Then do

$ sudo aptitude update

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade


When I tried to do this (about two months ago) there was a glitch in 
the upgrade connected with the transformation from XFree to XOrg (on a 
Sharp Mebius) and I lost X. Even when saved the old information from 
the config file and tried to rewrite it manually, it wouldn't work. Of 
course, there may be a workaround for this, but in any case, it is not 
a straightforward process on all machines.


Chuck

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Re: Laptop Shopping Questions

[Scarletdown]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 09:51 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:

> I've got a 1524WLMi (AMD64 3400) and I've got two sid systems, ubuntu and
> kubuntu on it.  Everything works fine although I installed a chroot
> 32bit system for open office and flash in firefox.  The 64bit
> applications work fine and I did get wireless networking working but I
> seem to have broken it at the moment.
> 

I ended up going with a Gateway MX6440 instead of the Acer, since the
specs were a little better, it uses an ATI graphics chipset instead of
SiS, it was on sale for about $800 at Best Buy, and I was able to pop a
Mepis CD into the display model at Best Buy to give it the penguin test.

So far, I've managed to get the Ethernet adapter working, and get X up
and running, but for some reason, I can't install KDE due to a buttload
of dependency problems.  It's starting to look like KDE is simply not
installable on an AMD64 kernel.

> Setting up the chroot was pretty straightforward following the howto:
> https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id220463
> 

WTF is a chroot?  I checked out the above site, and am confused enough
to the point where I am considering just installing a 32-bit kernel
instead of trying to get 32 bit apps to work on a 64 bit kernel.



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