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Re: [LUG] Debian Sarge

 

Colin James wrote:
last thing it says is detecting cd roms then just a blue screen but cd rom drive sounds like it is doing something
Can you flick it to the third console "ctrl-alt-F3" before this, so you 
can see error messages.
Sometimes if the display is messed up, "VGA=791" (IIRC) as an option to 
the kernel helps "expert26 vga=791", Ubuntu LiveCD, and various other 
bootable CDs add this option by default, but I think you are getting 
passed this step.
Really need a clearer idea of what is going wrong before commenting 
further. If it completely hangs after detecting CD (which is a distinct 
step in the expert install at least), then have you checked if the CD 
drive is support, or for known hardware issues. There are some very 
wacky CD drives out there.
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