I am attempting to complete a system build for my brand new mastershaper system, but I have been observing strange behaviour.

I can boot off the slack 10.2 CD, I can format HDD, create swap and slices, but as it scans for the media, it spins up the CDROM drive (the little green light flashes!) and then doesn't find the media! It moves onto searching for a SCSI CD device and of course doesn't find one...

I have tested the CD media several times for the installations, including on my VMWare machine...

This CDROM device has been used previously to install Windows on the same box.

I suspect that there is a CDROM driver problem... I have no idea where to start! The hardware I am installing on is an IBM NetVista machine, with a liteon LTN-486S CDROM.

I have booted from the old_cd.i kernel, but to no avail.

Anyone encountered this problem before, or have any suggestions?

Thank you kindly...

alleyCat