Hi. Hmm.
I installed Lenny on my PWS500au a while agao - without CD drive trouble. On Thursday 25 February 2010 20:46, Bob Tracy wrote: > 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.) I used only the first CD, I did the rest via ftp. Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
