cdrom problem installing etch

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 mount

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:10:45 +0100Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Old-return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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 an

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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 t

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

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

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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

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

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 bei

Re: cdrom problem installing etch

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 XF

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