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<p>I realize we only have a couple of months left that this matters, but it drove me nuts for hours today, so I thought I’d share.</p>
<p>The Debian sarge installer completely flips out if there’s more than one CD/DVD drive, you have discs in both, and the Debian disc isn’t in the first. The easy answer is, of course, take a disc out. It’s rather hard when it’s in the BladeCenter tray in NJ and you’re in upstate NY.</p>
<p>You can’t mount the drive yourself. There’s a bug in the installer that won’t detect which distro it’s trying to install, and it starts searching for files that don’t exist (/cdrom/dists//Release). Useless.</p>
<p>However, it turns out that devfs is writable in places. You can go into /dev/cdroms/, remove all the links, and recreate just a cdrom0 link to whichever /dev/scsi/ or /dev/ide/ device you like. Poof, functional.</p>
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<li>2009-Sep-11: <a href="2009-09-11-confusing-bind-with-cnames.html">Confusing BIND with CNAMEs</a></li>
<li>2009-Feb-19: <a href="2019-02-19-the-odd-case-of-my-mugging.html">The odd case of my mugging</a></li>
<li>2009-Feb-03: <a href="2009-02-03-5-packet-tcp-connection.html">5-packet TCP connection?</a></li>
<li>2006-Sep-22: <a href="2006-09-22-cdrom-multi-drive-sarge-installation.html">CD-ROM multi-drive sarge installation</a></li>
<li>2006-Jul-23: <a href="2006-07-23-sqlsearch-1-1-0.html">sqlsearch 1.1.0</a></li>
<li>2006-Jul-20: <a href="2006-07-20-sqlsearch-1-0-0.html">sqlsearch 1.0.0</a></li>
<li>2006-Jul-08: <a href="2006-07-08-my-dvd-drive-wont-play-movies.html">My DVD drive won’t play movies</a></li>

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I realize we only have a couple of months left that this matters, but it drove me nuts for hours today, so I thought I’d share.
The Debian sarge installer completely flips out if there’s more than one CD/DVD drive, you have discs in both, and the Debian disc isn’t in the first. The easy answer is, of course, take a disc out. It’s rather hard when it’s in the BladeCenter tray in NJ and you’re in upstate NY.
You can’t mount the drive yourself. There’s a bug in the installer that won’t detect which distro it’s trying to install, and it starts searching for files that don’t exist (/cdrom/dists//Release). Useless.
However, it turns out that devfs is writable in places. You can go into /dev/cdroms/, remove all the links, and recreate just a cdrom0 link to whichever /dev/scsi/ or /dev/ide/ device you like. Poof, functional.
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1. 2009-Sep-11: [Confusing BIND with CNAMEs](2009-09-11-confusing-bind-with-cnames.html)
1. 2009-Feb-19: [The odd case of my mugging](2019-02-19-the-odd-case-of-my-mugging.html)
1. 2009-Feb-03: [5-packet TCP connection?](2009-02-03-5-packet-tcp-connection.html)
1. 2006-Sep-22: [CD-ROM multi-drive sarge installation](2006-09-22-cdrom-multi-drive-sarge-installation.html)
1. 2006-Jul-23: [sqlsearch 1.1.0](2006-07-23-sqlsearch-1-1-0.html)
1. 2006-Jul-20: [sqlsearch 1.0.0](2006-07-20-sqlsearch-1-0-0.html)
1. 2006-Jul-08: [My DVD drive won’t play movies](2006-07-08-my-dvd-drive-wont-play-movies.html)