Debian load cd-rom drivers from removable media

 · Detect and mount cd-rom. No common cd-rom drive was detected. you may need to load additional cd-rom drivers from removeable media, such as a driver floppy. if you have such media available now, insert it, and continue. Otherwise, you will be given the option to manually select cd-rom modules. Load cd-rom drivers from removable media? Y/N.  · Plase make sure that the right media is present. If you continue to have trouble, your removable media might be bad. Cannot read removable media, or no drivers found. I don't think that the problem is in the USB drive, since a week ago I used it to install slack and it worked just fine. Top.  · │ │ │ │ Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media? │ │ │ │ Looking back at mailing thread archive a manual command need to be run to add cdrom driver. Can someone advise me the command to run from "Execute a shell"?

Okay so I'm using the debian amd64 netinst installer via usb, and it says Detect and mount cd-rom. No common cd-rom drive was detected. you may need to load additional cd-rom drivers from removeable media, such as a driver floppy. if you have such media available now, insert it, and continue. Open up a terminal window. Change to the Downloads directory with the command cd Downloads. Change to the root user with the command su. Type your root password and hit the Enter key. Assuming the firmware deb package is the only file in your Downloads folder, issue the command dpkg -i *.deb. Allow the installation to complete. At "Detect and mount CD-ROM", get a message that "No common CD-ROM drive was detected.", prompt to "Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media?" Saying "Yes" gets "Cannot read removable media, or no drivers found".

Sept "Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again.". Where sdb1 is your USB device. You could carry on installation now. After executing mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /cdrom, cd into the /cdrom directory and do an. On PCs SATA, IDE/ATAPI, USB and SCSI CD-ROMs are supported, you could use it to install Ubuntu without using the debian-installer described in the rest.