Re: DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM
Darren,
I saved this message some time back. I don't have one of these myself, but
the argument you need seems to be
0x340 cdu31a_irq=5
>From pseelig@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de Wed Nov 19 13:50:03 1997
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:32:59 +0100 (MET)
From: Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
To: rarenich@legislate.com, rik@erols.com
Cc: submit@bugs.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cdu31a
Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:35:19 +0800
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 14 Nov 1996 rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu wrote:
>
> A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware. He's using
> buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation
> boot disk to recognize his cdu31a.
>
> At the lilo prompt, he's type
> linux cdu31a=0x230,0
>
> This lilo parameter worked fine under slakware.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
This gave me the hardest time of installation too and i lost two days
being without a reasonably working system trying to find this out and
reinstalling numerous times until Bruce gave me the right advice:
Try:
modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5
If you use "modconf" (the module configuration menu) use the arguments
cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5
Adapt as needed.
It's all stated in the kernel documentation included with the sources
which are not present upon the stage of the base system installation. And
the information *present* during installation time is somewhat misleading
because the old scheme of passing parameters to LILO doesn't work with the
new 2.0.xx kernels. This should be revised in the setup configuration. Or
is it already for "Debian-1.2" release?
P. *8^)
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, darren morin wrote:
> As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question, Since I'm a
> newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS
> rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed. My question
> involves installing the SONY CDU31A.
>
> I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97)
> and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is
> fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the
> CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during
> installation asking me for a "command line argument". What?!?! What is
> it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's
> what its talking about). What do I do with it? I type in the numbers for
> IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for it....and never stops, forcing
> me to CTRL>ALT>DEL and having to start all over again. PLEASE HELP!!!
> I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM
> again (I printed out the "Debian Linux Installation and getting started"
> manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8
> times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to
> "install CDRom inteface" from the menu.
>
> P.S. Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought
> Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it
> going...).
> Sincerely, darren@cnwl.igs.net :-(
>
>
>
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