-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Try: > modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 > > If you use "modconf" (the module configuration menu) use the arguments > > cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 > Yeah, wow! This did the trick! But why is it not documented in the help text which is accessible at boot up of the installation disks by pressing the key F4? It wrongly suggests to add as parameter "cdu31a=0x3XX,X" or something like that. This even sounds rather plausible if you know this already from other more or less broken distributions! This is definitely a bug in the installation routine! What a pity that i lost so much time trying to find it out...
Well, i think it's time to compose some kind of an Debian-Installation-FAQ just for these kind of cases. An FAQ of this kind would have saved me and probably others lots of time and frustration. Anybody interested in contributing to such an FAQ? Let's see if i can manage to maintain it and learn from it! BTW, i didn't succeed installation anyway. :-( After my CD drive was recognized and the bad-links-fix package from i-Connect (i received a broken Debian-1.1.5 CD from them) was installed as described in their README i could use dselect to select my packages and everything. (This 'dselect' is to my mind a rather awkward program and i didn't enjoy installation with it very much...) But after completion of all selections when i started 'Install' i just got following error message (i wrote it down at home and went to our institute for mailing it): - -----------------cut-here---------------------------------------------- Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386 find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such file or directory find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such file or directory dpkg: subprocess find returned error exit status 1 installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. - -----------------cut-here---------------------------------------------- Well, i tried continuation and repeated everything various times. The files which are not found by find are definetely there right in the place as reported in the error message. They are just there waiting for 'find' and this damn 'find' just chooses to ignore them for whatever reason there is!!!!!? Can't 'find' handle symbolic links on a CD ROM? At this point i just had to give in. Looks like a case for i-Connect anyway... I think this is just incredible! When i was a complete clueless newbie who didn't even know how to pronounce UNIX or Linux and was a complete Windoze addict one and a half year ago i managed to setup a Slackware based system due to proper documentation in little more than a day. And up to this moment i barely managed to install a Debian-1.1 base system since friday evening being stuck again on monday morning... This ain't no good! I'd really wish it to be easier for a non informatics guy like me! Maybe i should switch to Redhat, but i like the idea behind Debian and GNU and actually want to install it on two Linux boxes which i am maintaining at our institute. But these frustrating experiences with my testdrive at my private box give me something to think about... Well, now it is almost 2:30 in the middle of the night and i am tired, pretty desillusioned and rather frustrated about my Debian experiences so far. I'll go home to sleep now and hope to get my Debian system up and running some time really soon. I depend on a Linux box and i definitely want it to be a GNU/Debian machine in any case! Good night, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjNjgOgqiw1XE3/lAQGh2QP+PSfedWmjKLv9NAO7R23BvYS5QMK3aaeN 3CLK7WJKV/VsMpgtW8UqVsMuVN7LFVIZLyblvBslSDMQHlF/bSUWz6VPMd+50Clk 9fhfcxXxAjTIWzA0ExtWdQxk8g0i5QNY+/hDsQSrX7KgI5dtKJucFr97JdvPpbl0 RK4ihDYbCRc= =MOGv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----