Installation failure
I am attempting to install Debian on an HP Kayak XU 6/200 and failing
utterly. I have installed Red Hat on two indentical computers without a
hitch. This is my first attempt to install Debian.
The CD-ROM I'm using came with the O'Reilly "Learning Debian" book.
I boot from the CD-ROM (so the drive works). The install procedes as
expected until the step where a device must tbe chosen that contains the
distribution bits.I select "CD-ROM". Another menu comes up which asks
which device in /dev is the CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM is SCSI (on LUN
5). The only /dev/scd* that appears on the menu is /dev/scd0. So, I
select it. Then I get an error message saying that the CD-ROM could not
be mounted.
If I drop into a shell and cat /proc/kmsg, the last line is:
kmod: failed to exec -s -k block-major-11, errno=2
/dev/sdc0 is a device with major number 11. So, it seems to me that the
kernel can't find the SCSI CD-ROM driver.
The SCSI card is an Adaptec AIC-7880.
Anybody have any suggestions?
--Lee
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