[NBLUG/talk] Installing Debian or Other GNU

Stephen Cilley hydro_mancer at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 27 16:50:20 PDT 2006


This may not be answering your question properly, but
I might have a suggestion.  What is the make and model
of  the fsb?  What version of kernel are you using to
install?
Stephen Cilley

--- Howard <howardas at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to install Debia from CDROM using the
> Netinstall
> ISO. During installation the installer checks for
> the CDROM. First time
> it sees it fine. But right after that I think at the
> point of writing 
> files to disk I get a prompt can't find CDROM. 
> 
> I have a feeling this has to do with where my CDROM
> is located in Bios.
> It's on the Secondary Slave. hda has XP. hdb
> currently has Red Hat 9. I wish
> to 
> overwrite this with a newer Linux OS.
> 
> So what is the syntax to tell Grub where my CDROM is
> on the Slave drive.
> 
> I have a feeling it's something like boot /hdd. Is
> that right hdd if it is
> on the 
> Secondary Master Slave?? 
> 
> I know this may be simple, but trying to read any
> Linux manuals is not for
> the faint of 
> heart for new users. I have yet to see a manual that
> is concise.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
> 
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