Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer? *I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new, assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about this. *Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot from the Debian DVD I inserted into the drive!

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,-PT

Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on
iHAS324-98 DVD writer? �I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new,
assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about
this. �Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot
from the Debian DVD I inserted into the drive!


Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
-PT



On the boot kernel line try cheat code "rootdelay=10" without the
quotes, that will give the installer more time to load the cd, it also
works swell for flash drive installs.

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Debian Squeeze at sda9
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Mr. Johnson --*
Regarding your suggestion of adding a rootdelay=10 line to the boot kernel: *how do I go about doing that? *I'm attempting to install onto a blank hard drive from Debian Lenny DVDs, so I don't think there's anywhere that I can write to which makes sense. *Would I need to do a boot from USB drive to make this work?

-PT
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer? *I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new, assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about this. *Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot from the Debian DVD I inserted into the drive!


Thanks in advance for any suggestions,-PT

I just started a new thread which supersedes this one, as I think my problem is not actually a driver problem but the more notorious issue of SATA drives not being detected (specifically, "No common CD-ROM drive was detected").

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt@gmail.com> wrote:

Mr. Johnson --*
Regarding your suggestion of adding a rootdelay=10 line to the boot kernel: *how do I go about doing that? *I'm attempting to install onto a blank hard drive from Debian Lenny DVDs, so I don't think there's anywhere that I can write to which makes sense. *Would I need to do a boot from USB drive to make this work?


-PT
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt@gmail.com> wrote:


Does anyone know where I can find a linux driver for the Lite-on iHAS324-98 DVD writer? *I'm trying to install Debian on a brand-new, assembled-from-parts workstation, and I'm getting a complaint about this. *Interestingly, the DVD reader is recognized well enough to boot from the Debian DVD I inserted into the drive!



Thanks in advance for any suggestions,-PT

Peter Tenenbaum wrote:

Mr. Johnson --�

Regarding your suggestion of adding a rootdelay=10 line to the boot
kernel: �how do I go about doing that? �I'm attempting to install onto a
blank hard drive from Debian Lenny DVDs, so I don't think there's
anywhere that I can write to which makes sense. �Would I need to do a
boot from USB drive to make this work?



After you boot the cd and then you choose your option for the install
you you will be able to hit an F key or tab key to choose boot options.


I do a lot of different installs so the Debian installer is a little
fuzzy in my head right know, play with the installer, but what you are
looking for is a place to add boot options.

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Debian Squeeze at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263


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