Re: Installing Debian???
Hey,
When your installation starts up (before it asks you if you want to use
color or not), check for a line that says: "hdc (or hdd, it matters what
slot the wire from your CD-ROM to your I/O board) Mitsumi ATAPI
detected" or something like that. If you see a line like that, you don't
need any drivers. The kernel can work with the CD-ROM on its own.
HTH!
Jeff
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:22:05 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Sunil N. Goda" <sngoda@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Installing Debian???
>
> I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my
PC.
>I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me
with.
> 1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the
drivers
>for it during the "install drivers phase" of installation, I keep
>getting the message installation failed. It seems like the drive is
>supported (there are options for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and an Mitsumi
>extended drive). I am not sure if it is failing because I am giving it
>the wrong command line options (specifying IRQ and IO, which admittedly
I
>am unsure about) or what.
>
> 2) I have an SMC 1211TX network card, and I am trying to use the
>rtl8139 driver for it, but I keep receiving an installation failed
message
>as well. I know that someone else has successfully used this driver
with
>this card, but he was not using Debian. To get it to work, he ended up
>hacking the drivers a little and compiling it into the kernel. My
>question is: after only the base install, is it possible to compile the
>kernel? My original plan was to configure my network card, and then
>download packages through ftp, but I may need to compile code before I
can
>configure my network card.
>
> 3) During the base install, I keep getting a message that says "There
>was a problem extracting the base system from /target/base2_0.tgz"
after I
>have entered all 5 floppy disks with the base system on them (without
>receiving any disk errors). I used rawrite2 under a DOS shell in win95
to
>write to the disks (I no longer have Win95 on my computer), so what
could
>the problem be?
>
> Thank You,
> Sunil
>
>
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