Re: ATAPI CD-writer
On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:17, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:10:04PM +1200, cr wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 01:33, Pigeon wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:23:25PM +1200, cr wrote:
> > > > I believe I also probably need sg and sr_mod. Can they also be
> > > > loaded via modprobe? And - this is probably a stupid question but,
> > > > where would I find these modules - sg, sr_mod and ide-scsi? insmod
> > > > can't find them -
> > > >
> > > > insmod: sg: no module by that name found
> > > >
> > > > I can't find them anywhere on my system, nor listed by name on the
> > > > complete Debian Woody CD-rom contents list that I keep handy.
> > >
> > > Unless someone pops up saying "Debian kernel version xxxxxx does
> > > contain these", sounds like you'll need to compile a new kernel, with
> > > SCSI generic support, SCSI CD-ROM support and SCSI emulation enabled
> > > as modules. (Just to confuse you, SCSI emulation is listed under
> > > ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support, rather than under SCSI support.)
> > >
> > > How to do this sort of thing, while retaining all your existing
> > > settings, has been discussed recently; search the list archives with
> > > "oldconfig" among your keywords.
> > >
> > > Mind you, I'd be rather shocked if there wasn't a Debian kernel with
> > > these modules already included. I always build my own kernels direct
> > > from kernel.org sources, so I don't know what the options are for
> > > stock Debian kernels, but doubtless someone else on the list does!
> >
> > I'd be surprised if one of the stock kernels on the CD's didn't include
> > ide cd-rom support, considering that *every* PC these days has a cd-rom
> > drive.
>
> "IDE CD-ROM support" is not the same as "ide-scsi emulation".
Sorry, I was thinking a bit vaguely there.
> > In fact I've just managed to find a document I stashed called
> > 'images.html' that says:
> >
> > idepci image:
> > The idepci flavor contains a kernel with only IDE and PCI support. It
> > is geared towards modern PCs without SCSI controllers. If you have
> > SCSI, you should be using the 'compact' flavor rather than this one.
>
> That's talking about real SCSI, with a SCSI controller card talking to
> devices over a SCSI bus. Again, not the same as ide-scsi.
>
> > So, is the vmlinuz kernel just the /idepci/linux.bin file copied and
> > renamed? If I just do the same with .../current/linux.bin and rename it
> > appropriately (and adjust Grub's menu.lst file) will it work?
> > (More importantly, if it doesn't, will it break things? )
>
> Wrong way of doing it. apt-get install kernel-package-whatever is the
> way to install a new kernel.
I downloaded the .deb package from www.debian.org and installed it with
Kpackage (which I think is a front end for apt). So far as I can see the
Woody cd-rom contains the kernel images but not as deb packages.
Chris
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