Re: Installing Debian on an Acer Extensa?

From	Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Installing Debian on an Acer Extensa?
Date	2014-12-30 11:35 +0100
Organization	Plouf !
Message-ID	<m7tv5q$2gi$1@saria.nerim.net> (permalink)
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Jacob Sparre Andersen a écrit :
> I have some problems installing Debian/Wheezy on an Acer Extensa
> EX2509-C0YR laptop (and Google doesn't seem all that helpful tonight).
> 
> I've managed to come as far as booting the Debian installer from an USB
> memory stick, selecting language and keyboard.  But finding the "cd
> drive" (the file system on the USB memory stick) is beyond both me and
> the Debian installer.

How did you prepare the installer on the USB memory stick ?
Direct copy of the .iso image file to to the raw device /dev/sdX with
dd/cp/cat, or use of some tool such as unetbootin ?

Enter an installer shell in console 2 or 3, check that the USB
controller is correctly managed and the stick is correctly detected with
dmesg, lspci, lsusb, fdisk -l...

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Installing Debian on an Acer Extensa? Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk> - 2014-12-29 22:16 +0100
  Re: Installing Debian on an Acer Extensa? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-29 22:22 +0000
  Re: Installing Debian on an Acer Extensa? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-12-30 11:35 +0100

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