Troubleshooting a problem install

[Evan Leibovitch]

Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Right, I got PATA and E-IDE confused there. It's the parallel ATA that's 
> the problem, something about hacked on support for PATA in the SATA 
> kernel driver. More here: http://lwn.net/Articles/197729/
>   
That appears to be it.

> To fix/get around the problem with Ubuntu, here is what you want:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core_2_Duo_Support
>
> Scroll down to the part "Installer Freezes on Not Finding IDE CD/DVD-ROM 
> Drive" and you should be good to go (with tinkering).
>   
Thankfully, I just happen to have a USB DVD reader lying around. (First
time in a while that something in my surplus drawer has come in handy
:-) ). So let's see how it goes.

Thanks!

- Evan