Re: Encountering Debian distribution

[Richard Tietjen <rtietjen@kale.connix.com>]

>>>>> On Tue, 15 Aug 1995 13:13:31 +0200 (MDT), jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL (J.H.M.Dassen) said:
	....

    >> When the CD available is from FSF or elsewhere, will it support
    >> big EIDE drives?

    Jdassen> Yes. Debian uses the most up to date "stable" kernel; the
    Jdassen> Hardware HowTo states: "Large IDE (EIDE) drives work fine
    Jdassen> with newer kernels. The boot partition must lie in the
    Jdassen> first 1024 cylinders due to PC BIOS limitations."

    >> Will "IDE" CD drives be supported (this was one area where I
    >> had so much trouble with the other distributions, I have a new
    >> DELL XMT, maybe too new)?

    Jdassen> EIDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drives are supported by the kernel,
    Jdassen> so, most likely, yes.

I believe the kernel that comes with .93 is 1.2.1.  Don't I need to
get a higher version to attempt to contact the cd-rom drive?  How do I
find out how to do that?  Should I know the answer to this question?

Thanks for your information.