Fedora 11 download on new laptop - cannot locate drive on dvd

Cutter1 · 11-03-2009, 09:35 AM

Purchased Toshiba Satellite laptop L505D-S5983 November 30, 2009. Separated partitions and inserted Fedora 11 disk. Computer responded and asked question regarding what I wanted to do and I selected install. Answered question regarding English, US, then response given "Cannot locate drive" --> now need to manually select drive among myriad of drives listed.

The CD-ROM component in my computer is the HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT20F ATA Device.
Manufacturer value states "(Standard CD-ROM drives.

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Mr-Bisquit · 11-04-2009, 01:54 AM

Try locating with dmesg.
From the command line.

Code:

%dmesg | grep cd
acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-4836K/SPJ2> at ata1-master UDMA33
%

The example is from FreeBSD but the command line will get the same results.
You may also want to look for hdc in /dev.
Try inserting media and see what syslog puts out.
Find the manufacturer of the drive and use that for the driver.