On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:11:08PM -0600, fti International wrote: > Dear All, > > I am tring to install Debian on an old pc (486). > > The BIOS on the old pc does not allow me to boot from cd-rom and > does not recognize the existence of the > cd-rom drive. It does not allow me to specifiy the cd-rom on > the BIOS setup menu. There are two IDE adapters (0 and 1) with > master and slave for each. But all of them are _predefined_ for > specifying hard disks. > > So I installed the base of Linux using floppies. > > Now I want to install the packages from the official Debain > cd-roms. When I run the "apt-setup" and choose the cd-rom > option, it asks me to give the device name for the cd-rom. > I think the cd-rom on my pc is an IDE deice, so I tried > "/dev/hdb", "/dev/hdc", and "/dev/hdc". All of them resulted > in an error like > " ...not recognized by kernel as a block devie" > > So what is the soltion here? Do I have to > > (1) somehow make the BIOS to recognize the cd-rom and then > reinstall the Linux base? or > (2) somehow just load relevant device drivers to the current > system (if so, how?)? or > (3) something else? > > Any help is greately appreciated. -Cong Check /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages to see if hardware probing found your cdrom drive and what device it is. -- Jerome
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