On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:14 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 18:47 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > I forgot to mention that when it comes up with the list of devices > > where the packages might be, I choose CD/DVD and then it says it can't > > find any device of that type. That's what really baffles me. How can > > it boot from the DVD and yet not see the DVD device? > > I've had that problem on one or two systems. One of them had several > ATAPI drives (ZIP, LS120, CD-burner, DVD-ROM), and my BIOS would let me > boot from only some of them. I had to unplug some drives to do an > install. > > I don't think I've seen further information, yet, about your system. > > The list of install devices is just a list, the system has to know how > to access the DVD that entry points to, separately. It'll still list > DVD as a choice, even if you didn't have such a drive on your system. > > -- > [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr > 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 i686 i386 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > ________________________________________________________________ > > If I wanted a hard time I would have used Windows... > I posted more info in my reply to Rick Stevens. Rick B.
