Comment 42 for bug 8196

(In reply to comment #0)
> Trying to install from the preview release cd(and the current cd from 9/18),
> the installer fails when it can not find modules for various hardware
> connected via pci and ide.
>
> The list of modules it can't find is:
> i810-tco, e100, ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect, ide-floppy

Just to say that I just came across this issue too. I sort of gathered that
something
else was grabbing some device before the proper ide-cd stuff did.

A workaround that I came up with and which worked was

1. boot up as normal
2. Choose Language
3. Skip to tty2 by hitting alt-F2
4. do:
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/ide-core.ko
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/ide-generic.ko
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/ide-pnp.ko
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/ide-cd.ko
       insmod /lib/modules/2.6.xxxxx/kernel/drivers/cdrom/ide-core.ko
5. Return to tty1 by hitting alt-F1
6. Continue as usual loading other modules after the above are in place.

The above is from memory so I may have the order of module install wrong.
I was more bluffing than doing something that I knew was strictly correct.

This worked successfully to get the install finished. However, now it
appears that the installer has not configured /etc/modules (or some such)
correctly and the same problem is exhibited by the installed system.

I didn't have time to tinker about and see how exactly to fix that. Is
this a debian-installer bug?

Gavin