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debian-installer package

  1. Bug #270461
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 270461

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Adam Hill (sidepipeuk) wrote :

I've just come across this one myself... again an NEC CDROM though this time in a Laptop ( a Philips Freevents model. ) Since changing the CDROM is not an option for me, and I don't have a USB CDROM drive handy, I came up with this workaround:

When the message appears the first time:
Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get another console.
chroot /target
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
( comment out the CDROM line by inserting a # at the start, save and quit. )
apt-cdrom add
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get back to the installed and press Enter.

( This is with the alternate install CDROM. )

The message appeared at least once more during the install, but repeating the above got past it. Also, at one point I got a message that selecting and installing failed - again I repeated the above, and selected to repeat the step from the menu.

After all of that, I had a working system! Although this seems to be related to NEC CDROM drives, it appears to be a bug since the drive itself works. Ideally someone needs to find out what the root cause is....