Cannot Continue Installation Update3...

[Chad Zoellner]

On 8/16/02 11:01 AM, "yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
<yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:46:38 -0700
> Subject: Cannot Continue Installation Update2...
> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
>>> Message: 5
>>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:24:47 -0700
>>> Subject: Cannot continue installation...
>>> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
>>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>> 
>>> G3 400 AGP DVD No OS just trying to load YDL the installer boots fine from
>>> the CD into a text interface/no graphic. After selecting the keyboard type
>>> it asks to specify the CD-Rom "LOCAL cd/dvd", since this is what I have,
>>> "OK" it then says it is unable to mount it, though the drive does spin up
>>> for a split second.
>>> 
>>> So far I have tried the workarounds prev. posted -- hdc=ide-scsi and vice
>>> versa. The first will get it past the cd check but it tells me I have more
>>> than one cd drive and if it fails to mount to place the disk into the
>> other
>>> drive.  I have only one drive. And it always fails. I am stuck. I have
>> tried
>>> to work through the custom install but since I am still learning all this
>> I
>>> keep mangling the mount points.
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> 
> 
>> 
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:02:52 -0700
>> Subject: Cannot Install Cont...
>> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> 
>> Update, 
>> Tried pulling every other card out of the machine on the chance that my scsi
>> card or my video capture card was causing the prob still cannot mount the cd
>> when checking  multimedia.
>> 
>> Also hooked every open connection with spare hard drives in case it was
>> thinking that an open slot in the chain was a cd drive but still could not
>> mount the cd during the install process.
>> 
>> Again any help would be appreciated, I am running out of options here,
>> 
>> The next thing I am going to try is to swap out the DVD drive with a
>> standard Cd-Rom. I figure if that works and I can get installed I can
>> redirect the path to the drive as others have done.
>> 
>> -chadz
>> 
> 
> 
> Update part 2
> 
> Unhooked everything except the video card, one hard drive,  and the dvd
> drive. Tried the 2.3 installer again and had the same issue... " you have
> more than one cd/dvd drive installed"..."unable to mount the drive".
> 
> Swapped the DVD drive for a standard CD-Rom and had the same issue.
> 
> Hooked up both the DVD and the CD-Rom.. Had the same issue even swapping the
> disk back and forth between drives during the installation.
> 
> I am now officially out of ideas, nothing anywhere is addressing this issue
> on any FAQ or mailing list.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> - Chadz
> 

Update 3

Talked with a Past Unix person who offered the suggestion that I check to
make sure that the HD and the CD/DVD are both on their own IDE line and that
they are both set to master and not cable select or slave. Double checked
and tested again with the same results. Just to cover the bases I also set
each to cable select at the same time and individually and tested with the
same result.

Again any help would be appreciated.

-chadz