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I`ve been a Windows user up to now so please
excuse my ignorance.
I`m trying to install Debian 2.1 from the
"Official" Binary- i386 CD. My computer, a 486 with 2 hard drives, a
floppy and a CD drive wouldn`t boot CDs so I started the the installation from
DOS, fine.
Things went well until I got to the stage
"Install Operating System Kernel and Modules"
Seems whichever device I select for the CDROM
returns the message "The CD-ROM was not mounted
successfully"
I`ve looked at the ttty3 terminal and hda
and hdb give the message "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems"
hdc and hdd give the message "mount: the
kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (`maybe insmod
driver`?)
The SCSI option just brings up the "No SCSI
Adapter" screen.
All other options give the message "mount:
special device /dev/cdrom does not exist"
To make matters worse this is a spare PC bought
cheaply so I have no real idea of any of the hardware specifications, and no
Windows OS to check them on.
I really would like to escape from Microsoft so
any help would be much appreciated.
Paul Walton
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