I encountered an unexpected "unpleasantness" last night while trying to install Lenny on my Miata (PWS 433au). When the installer got to the part where "apt" offers to scan all the installation media, I pressed the button on the CD-ROM drive to eject the first CD, replaced it with the second CD, pressed the button to close the tray, and the #...@! tray would *not* stay closed.
At that point, the installation process was unrecoverable, and I had to power-cycle the machine to restore sanity. In my frustration, I managed to physically break the tray loading mechanism (one of the gears) when the scenario repeated itself. Had the drive survived the second installation attempt, the next thing I was going to try was to "pass" on having "apt" scan the other CDs. Found a Toshiba IDE CD-RW drive for $9 that I'll try this evening. If the problem persists with the new drive, I'll at least know it's some kind of weird Linux+controller issue. If that's the case, anyone got an idea how I might work around it? (I'll provide the controller error messages from "syslog" if the problem persists with the new drive.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit [email protected] | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
