At 23:57 30.10.1997 -0600, you wrote: >Dirk, > >A few questions: > >1. After you modified your lilo.conf, did you re-run /sbin/lilo?
No, but I should have. Will try this. >2. How is your drive partitioned? 1 Primary MSDOS Win 95 app. 900MB 2 Primary Linux root app. 30MB 3 Primary Linux swap app. 50MB 4 Logical Linux usr app. 450MB 5 Logical Linux home app. 520MB 6 Logical Linux var app. 50MB MSDOS was partitioned earlier. Linux was partitioned on the remaining free space. >3. What drive letter is your CD-ROM under Windows 95? J: > >Under the Debian install, the ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drivers are installed by default >(at least on my disk from Linux System Labs). Same 'official Debian 1.3.1' I installed from. >My concern is that your drive is >hooked up to your SB 16 card. I do not know what kind of interface is used for >this card (ATAPI/IDE) or proprietary SB, but even if it is ATAPI/IDE, the >interface is probably not recognized out of the box by GNU/Linux. I would >suggest printing a system summary from Windows 95 (right-click on My Computer, >select Properites, then something about devices.) It will show you a graphical >list of devices in your computer. There will be a Print button. Press it and >select summary. This will at least tell you how things are configured under >Windows 95, which will then give you a hint on how to get them working under >GNU/Linux. The IRQ summary shows standard config of the system: SB16 at 05, IDE controller at 10 (must be CDROM), IDE at 14. At IRQ 09 is a CDROM controller, but it is disabled by the system. Main problem remains how to get Linux recognize or configure it to these settings. > >I have had *no* problems making GNU/Linux and Windows 95 co-exist on my machine, >however, I realize I am very lucky: Many people have terrible times getting this >to work. Let me know what you find out, and I will make any suggestions I can. You are indeed lucky. Moreover I need my system for my general and other work and had hoped Linux would enhance and improve the performance of my machine. Now I get kind of stuck up and may have to stick to Win & co. :-( Now during installation, is it necessary to specifically install the 'Block' and other devices, like serial and parallel ports, or does the system recognize these standard devices by itself?? Dirk. >LGW4 > >Dirk Kievith wrote: > >> I installed Linux 1.3.1 thru floppies, but run into rough water. I have a >> plain 486 DX2 66 Mhz, with 16 MB, 2.1 Gb IDE HDD and a Creative CDrom >> (Matsushita - CR 581-M) on a Soundblaster 16 card. >> >> 1. During the installation Linux asks for the device drivers to be installed: >> >> - Block device drivers: cannot figure out what to install? >> >> - CDROM drive: sbpcd is offered, but Linux cannot find any on my system. >> Thus I installed plain cdrom. >> >> - Further I installed the serial and parallel port device drivers, plus a NE >> 2000 driver, though the card is not yet connected to a net work. >> >> Other intall sequence went alright. Then I made a boot-floppy and installed >> LILO as I was adviced. >> Only Lilo does not give a boot prompt when pressing <Shift> on booting only >> something like A2E. But no choice available, neither thru <Tab> not <?> and >> Linux starts. Then I appended to lilo.conf: >> other=/dev/hda1 >> table=/dev/hda >> label=win95 >> >> But to no avail. >> >> Then I tried to use dselect to install the packages but my cdrom is not >> being recognized. Dselect asks for the Block Device name; I cannot find any >> references to that. So I abandoned that part of the install. >> >> I figured out how to get to the LILO docs and de-installed LILO in order to >> get the old boot records in place but now nothing is booting anymore: no >> Linux, no Win95; W95 start-up disk searches the floppy-drive for system, not >> the HDD. >> >> Questions: >> >> - How to get LILO boot both linux and Win95 (again)? >> - How to get Linux recognize the Creative CDROM? >> - How to get Linux recognize the SB 16? >> - Suppose I do a new install, what drivers are necessary to install during >> the installation process? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Dirk Kievith >> Consultant for CADD & Web Design >> >> -- PO Box 24 | Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 -- >> -- Pondicherry 605001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- >> -- India | http://webstudio6.com -- >> >> -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
