Debian installer cannot detect my cd-rom
 

Hi there,
I am trying to install Debian on a brand new system and it has a basic IDE CD-ROM.

I tried a couple versions of Debian CDS ( full install, netinstall, businesscardISO) but all of them is giving me the message:
"your installation cd-rom couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. if so you can insert it and try again."

Ive triple checked that the CD itself is not corrupted :)

The computer itself is detecting the CD-ROM just fine and it boots up with Debian and I can specify the language/country etc. Until I get to the cd-rom mount error.

I tried using a older CD-ROM hooking it up to this new system (thsi worked with our previous system) and also tried Fedora and I am getting the same cd-rom unmountable error msg.
In the BIOS, the cd rom is showing as
lite-on cd-rw sohr-5




Any ideas will be great here.
wonder why its not reading in cd....

I had exactly one Dell system that had this issue. (Odd since all my other Dells and IBMs didn't.)

Typing the following at the boot: prompt helped:

ide=nodma

Above assumes you're using an IDE (ATA) CD-ROM.

Try using the linux26 workaround at the boot prompt.

Hi there, Thanks for this suggestion.
I tried that at the boot: prompt it says
could not find kernel image: ide=modma

am I missing something here ?

DO you have a site that shows this workaround?
Tried googling but can't seem to find a tutorial/instruction on this.

That assumes you are trying to install Sarge (Stable). If that is true, it is a very bad idea with new hardware.

Install Etch instead.