I am mandrake user, now i like to install debian 2.1, always i use booting from CDROM. I do it with Debian. for your information, I have creative 48X CDROM drive. I make partition like this :- for / --- 450M swap ---- 128M /var ----- 500M /usr ---- 1500M after finish my partition, i proceed and debian want to install : next-- install kernel and modules [ something like this] I press enter and deb ask me from where i like to install , i choose CDROM. deb ask to select : i select /dev/hdc----IDE but deb said no CDROM drive found. why ? Please suggest what i will do ? I have two CD of debian. contents :-- (1) README.1st, README.CD-manufactures, README.mirrors.html,README.mirrors.txt, README.muticd README.non-us, README.pgp, Release-notes, boot, debian, dists, doc, extras, md5sums.txt and another CD have all aboves and plus below:-- (2) install, tools, upgrade-2.0.i386 upgrade-older-i386 which CD's I use for install, because I'm complete new in debian . please suggest debian user's. I collect this CD's from one of my friend but he is not debian user's. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on the LIH mailing list see: http://lists.linux-india.org/lists/LIH