Re: basic install problems
Dirk,
A few questions:
1. After you modified your lilo.conf, did you re-run /sbin/lilo?
2. How is your drive partitioned?
3. What drive letter is your CD-ROM under Windows 95?
Under the Debian install, the ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drivers are installed by default
(at least on my disk from Linux System Labs). My concern is that your drive is
hooked up to your SB 16 card. I do not know what kind of interface is used for
this card (ATAPI/IDE) or proprietary SB, but even if it is ATAPI/IDE, the
interface is probably not recognized out of the box by GNU/Linux. I would
suggest printing a system summary from Windows 95 (right-click on My Computer,
select Properites, then something about devices.) It will show you a graphical
list of devices in your computer. There will be a Print button. Press it and
select summary. This will at least tell you how things are configured under
Windows 95, which will then give you a hint on how to get them working under
GNU/Linux.
I have had *no* problems making GNU/Linux and Windows 95 co-exist on my machine,
however, I realize I am very lucky: Many people have terrible times getting this
to work. Let me know what you find out, and I will make any suggestions I can.
LGW4
Dirk Kievith wrote:
> I installed Linux 1.3.1 thru floppies, but run into rough water. I have a
> plain 486 DX2 66 Mhz, with 16 MB, 2.1 Gb IDE HDD and a Creative CDrom
> (Matsushita - CR 581-M) on a Soundblaster 16 card.
>
> 1. During the installation Linux asks for the device drivers to be installed:
>
> - Block device drivers: cannot figure out what to install?
>
> - CDROM drive: sbpcd is offered, but Linux cannot find any on my system.
> Thus I installed plain cdrom.
>
> - Further I installed the serial and parallel port device drivers, plus a NE
> 2000 driver, though the card is not yet connected to a net work.
>
> Other intall sequence went alright. Then I made a boot-floppy and installed
> LILO as I was adviced.
> Only Lilo does not give a boot prompt when pressing <Shift> on booting only
> something like A2E. But no choice available, neither thru <Tab> not <?> and
> Linux starts. Then I appended to lilo.conf:
> other=/dev/hda1
> table=/dev/hda
> label=win95
>
> But to no avail.
>
> Then I tried to use dselect to install the packages but my cdrom is not
> being recognized. Dselect asks for the Block Device name; I cannot find any
> references to that. So I abandoned that part of the install.
>
> I figured out how to get to the LILO docs and de-installed LILO in order to
> get the old boot records in place but now nothing is booting anymore: no
> Linux, no Win95; W95 start-up disk searches the floppy-drive for system, not
> the HDD.
>
> Questions:
>
> - How to get LILO boot both linux and Win95 (again)?
> - How to get Linux recognize the Creative CDROM?
> - How to get Linux recognize the SB 16?
> - Suppose I do a new install, what drivers are necessary to install during
> the installation process?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dirk Kievith
> Consultant for CADD & Web Design
>
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