Re: Newbie: Installation problems
I'm no expert on this either but try these settings:
/dev/hdn ->instead of n you select b, c or d
Why so? go here: http://www.debian.de/releases/slink/i386/install
and look in section 4.3
maybe this helps
On 7 May 1999 16:38:36 +0200, Sudhir P <sudhir.parasuram@cisco.com>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please excuse me for the wide distribution. And do excuse me for not
>being able to give the exact technical terms in the following. I have
>tried to explain the situation to the best extent that I can (now).
>
>My present set up:
>------------------
>I have an i586 system in which I have dos, linux (Redhat and Debian)
>installed (after lot of goof-ups and struggles, being a novice that I
>am).
>
>The partition details are as follows
>/dev/hda1 - DOS
>/dev/hda2 - Linux partition (I suppose, I am not very confortable with
>this naming
> convention, so please excuse me)
>/dev/hda5 - RedHat Linux (kernel - 2.0.36)
>/dev/hda6 - Swap space (common to both Redhat and Debian)
>/dev/hda7 - Debian Linux (kernel - 2.0.36)
>
>The MBR contains the LILO. My lilo.conf in /dev/hda5 (Redhat) contains
>details of the setup, and the details about Debian kernel (being present
>in /dev/hda7, boot-label="debian"). I am assuming that this is where it
>is taking information from when I type "debian" at my lilo prompt, the
>kernel being loaded from /dev/hda7.
>
>Dos (Windows-95) and Redhat are fully operational. There is some problem
>with debian however.
>
>I am not able to go beyond the base-kernel installation. I have
>configured in the kernel to support cd-roms with the "common CD-ROMs"
>option that is available for CD-ROM device drivers.
>
>There is a part of the installation where u have to give details about
>the "access" medium (default being /dev/cdrom). When I accept this as my
>default or even type in "/dev/cdrom", it is reported as an error. It
>says that it is unable to find the device (even though installation is
>going on from the device).
>
>If I go to another virtual-terminal and try: mount /dev/cdrom,
>it gives an error message stating that there is no entry in the
>/etc/fstab. If I make an entry in the same, and issue "mount
>/dev/cdroom", an error message stating that the kernel doesn't support
>this filesystem (iso9660) is issued.
>
>I am unable to go beyond this. No packages are being installed as I
>haven't been able to specify /dev/cdrom as my source.
>
>I hope that I have explained the situation clearly enough. In case you
>require more details, please mail me.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>Sudhir.P
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