On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:38:50AM +0200, damiaan wrote: > hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Your English, especially the spelling, seems much better than a lot of Americans I know :-) If only we in the States had such a good grasp of foreign languages as you Europeans do :-)
> I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to boot > from hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired of > downloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new and > ordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for my > creative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect). dselect wasn't the right place to configure the CD-ROM. You need to load a kernel module (a device driver) for your CD-ROM. From experience with a system with that type of CD-ROM, I'm pretty sure you needed the matcd module. 'modprobe matcd' would have loaded it, and adding 'matcd' to /etc/modules would have caused the system to load it automatically on bootup. > After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (what > would allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a boot > disk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation. > > I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave it > up. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(i > partitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stopped > booting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Is this the boot disk from the previous installation? >Then i > could only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the whole > installation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at > 'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescue > disk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescue > floppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw the > > floppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, this > one didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4 > disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the same > point). > > So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'm > using the right floppies? Try different floppies. Perhaps your floppy drive needs calibration? I've had installations where it took several times. With my dedicated Linux file server, I created a 20 MB DOS partition and used a DOS based CD-ROM driver to copy these files to a "debian" directory: base2_1.tgz drv1440.bin linux loadlin.exe install.bat resc1440.bin root.bin Then it just cded to the debian directory and ran 'install'. Much faster (and less error-prone) that loading from floppies! Once your system was up and running, you could replace the DOS partition with a swap partiton. > how can i configure my CR-563 > creative labs in the installation program? Wait for the section "Configure Device Driver Modules". Pick the matcd module. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
