on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Paul Scott (waterhorse@ultrasw.com) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott (waterhorse@ultrasw.com) wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have been trying to get Debian installed on a 486 that does not know > >>how to boot from the CDROM. I was able to get to the CD with a Windows > >>98 startup diskette and execute boot.bat in the install directory. > >> > >>I got as far as the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" I > >>need to choose the installation medium. The choices are first and > >>second floppies or currently mounted filesystem. If I choose currently > >>mounted filesystem I need to give a directory. I don't know what that > >>is. It is not /dev/hdc1. I can execute a shell but I can't seem to > >>mount anything which helps. > >> > > > > Are you trying to access the installation system on CDROM? In this > > case, it's the CDR, and it should be /dev/hdc. > > > That gets me "no such file or directory". /dev/hdc1 gets me "not a > block device". Sounds like you may have a nonstandard CDROM device. Look at the CDROM support options in the installer. The CDROM support isn't necessary for most modern systems, but may be required on an older one. > >>Are there any tools available to that shell that will help me? > >> > > > > As usual, your executables are in /bin, /sbin, and possibly, /usr/bin > > and /usr/sbin. > > > > $ fdisk -l > > > > ...will list all available partitions. > > > It seems like that was even a menu option. > > > Your hard drive is likely /dev/hda. > > Yes and I also have another small hard drive /dev/hdb. > > > > To mount a partition, make sure that /mnt exists, and create a mount > > point underneath it: > > > > $ mkdir /mnt/hd > > $ mount /dev/hda[1-16] /mnt/hd > > > > ...where 1-16 refers to the partition number you're mounting. Note that > > you can create (and mount) multiple partitions. > > I tried several mounts like that without the intelligent [1-16]. I may > try again with that. That's given to indicate a range. You can only mount a single partition at a time: /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3, etc. > > I don't think this is what you're trying to do though. > > I am thinking I need a floppy system that has a driver for that CD. Yes. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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