On 11/23/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: .. > > Does this follow, > > that the CDROM drive can read *some* of the disc, but not > > enough to install from? > > It's possible - can you swap out the cdrom with another machine just to > install? heh, I might be in this boat because I screwed up installing the NIC's in the first place. > The other possibility (I had to do this with Debian once) is that it is > improperly setting up the fstab for whatever reason on that machine - > and you need to edit the fstab to point to the correct device before it > will mount it for installation. .. Hmm, the iso would have to be unpacked, modified, re-iso'ed? I'm trying to get a good download of gnoppix as an alternate. I have tomsrtbt working, perhaps I could copy from the cd-rom to the hard drive? Perhaps in that case I'd need source, which'd mean compiling. I'm not sure I want to go that route if that's what's entailed. -Thufir
