Comment 3 for bug 79669

more notes:

1) i was wrong. the device does show up. i expected "sdc" but it's actually "scd0". the customary link to "sr0", however, is not created.

2) (weird, possibly unrelated). during the "detect" phase (which is really just a blank blue screen with a white bar at the bottom) i get some "eeeeeee" on the screen as if i had typed them at the keyboard. i can backspace them. i didn't type them and it happens every time.

3) giving the /dev/scd0 manually as the device to the installer works fine. it seems like the installer should be able to figure this out for itself so i'm making this a debian-installer bug.