Hello fellow Debian users. I have an LG GSA E10N Super-Multi USB cdrom which I have used successfully with cdrecord (Just Work [TM]!) to burn an Etch installation cd. However I cannot seem to be able to install properly from the cd. I boot without any problem (select cdrom in bios and it appears in the list in bios as a cdrom) but the installation program fails because it seems to find it as a floppy (which it cannot access) and just doesnt work.

According to the installation manual [1] it should be possible to install from USB cdrom. But I just dont understand what I am doing wrong? Has anyone successfully installed Debian from a USB cdrom here? How did you go about the problem of cdrom being detected as a floppy? (Or whatever the "real" problem is)

Thanks for your time and help,
Henrik Holst

[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...h02s02.html.en

I'm not sure but you may need to make sure one or both of those drivers listed above are being used, by switching consoles, during the installation routine.

I got that from the link you posted.

It's pretty hard for someone to give you a step-by-step not knowing anything about your system. Even if you posted the exact system it'd still be a very long post to cover everything.

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/%7Eggbaker/personal/cf-linux

This has pretty much all the info needed to get it going. It's actually very easy. After you go through it once, the second time (like helping a friend or using on a second system) takes only a few minutes.

Good luck,
Steve