On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:26:56PM -0700, Phil Ramey wrote: > Howdy, > > So last tuesday I got fed up with windows and > formatted C: .... it was very satusfying.... > > Anyway, I went through a couple of installs that were > broken (PIBKAC, i assure you), until I landed on this > install... let's see if I can re-construct, step by > step: > Hi Phil, welcome to debian x-) <detailed info about install and sound> Not sure about the sound, its still out of my general domain. I have a bunch of old sound cards so I just tried a few and found one that works the easiest. Like a sb card.
> Two other side problems... > > I have two hard drives and two cdrom drives, and only > one of each is currently recognised by the system. my > unrecognised HD has ~20gigs of mp3s and such that i'd > like to keep if i can... it's fat32 (converted with > partitionmagic from NTFS for compatability)... i have > Vfat compiled in, but... i don't know what to do to > get them in fstab, etc... What does 'fdisk -l' show? (as root) if you see a listing like '/dev/hdb1' or the like, what does: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt do? and if it works, do 'cd /mnt/; ls' and see what happens. Also check for any messages in /var/log/message and /var/log/dmesg for clues. > > sort of related second side problem: I have an iRiver > iHP-120, 20gig hard-disk mp3/ogg/wma/etc player, that > uses USB2.0 (or 1.1) mass storage... i installed all > the kernel packages i could see though menuconfig that > USB Mass Storage needed... but i don't really know > where to go from there... there's USB1.1 on my mobo > that works (my mouse!), and a USB2 PCI card that i've > not confirmed works, yet. do 'lspci -v' and see if you see anything that looks like you usb interfaces. Also when you plug in the player, does anything show up in /var/log/messages? -Kev
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