Problem
This article only applies to installations on bare metal machines that show the grey Debian installer after booting.
During installation of UCS 5.0 on a bare metal machine using a bootable USB pen drive, the “Debian Installer” does not continue after the message:
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
These steps were already performed before the error showed up:
After booting up the grey Debian installer shows up and the following menu entry was selected:
"Start with default settings"
Select your language
"English" -> Continue
Select your location
"<your-country>" -> Continue
Configure the keyboard
"<your-keymap>" -> Continue
Detect and mount CD-ROM
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
The installer does not continue from here using further selections with the defaults.
Solution
From this point you have to let the installation fail once to get to the “Debian install main menu” where you can execute a shell. Follow these steps:
Detect and mount CD-ROM
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media?
"No" -> Continue
Manually select a CD-ROM module and device?
"No" -> Continue
Installation step failed
-> Continue
Debian install main menu
"Execute a shell" -> Continue -> Continue
in the shell:
blkid
Identify the disk device with the label “UCS 5.0-4 amd64 1” (in this example /dev/sda1)
/dev/sda1: UUID="2023-06-19-22-57-01-00" LABEL="UCS 5.0-4 amd64 1" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="e445c082" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="e445c082-01"
/dev/sda2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="1E0A-D204" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="e445c082-02"
in the shell:
exit
Debian install main menu
"Detect and mount CD-ROM" -> Continue
Detect and mount CD-ROM
No common CD-ROM drive was detected.
Load CD-ROM drivers from removable media?
"No" -> Continue
Manually select a CD-ROM module and device?
"Yes" -> Continue
Module needed for accessing the CD-ROM:
"none" -> Continue
Device file for accessing t he CD-ROM:
Change the default from
/dev/cdrom
to the above identified device, i. e. “/dev/sda” (not the partition, just the device)
/dev/sda
-> Continue
Installer continues from there.