Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a second computer here at work from cd-rom. I got the base system installed from floppy OK, and the cd rom was apparently detected, but i don't have a clue how to mount it. I was expecting a /dev/scd0 block device, but there's none, just sda, sdb, etc. which are already used for the two hard disks. sdc won't work either.
Here's the last section of boot messages from dmesg: NCR53c406a: no available ports found scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 15, function 0 scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c810 at memory 0x3effff00, io 0xff00, irq 15 scsi0 : burst length 8 scsi0 : reset ccf to 3 from 0 scsi0 : NCR code relocated to 0x2fc600 (virt 0x002fc600) scsi0 : test 1 started Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi0 : NCR53c{7,8}xx (rel 17) scsi : 1 host. scsi0 : target 0 accepting asynchronous SCSI scsi0 : setting target 0 to asynchronous SCSI Vendor: QUANTUM Model: MAVERICK 540S Rev: 0901 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0 : target 1 accepting asynchronous SCSI scsi0 : setting target 1 to asynchronous SCSI Vendor: DEC Model: DSP3053LS Rev: 442E Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 scsi0 : target 4 accepting asynchronous SCSI scsi0 : setting target 4 to asynchronous SCSI Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:500 Rev: 2.5 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1057758 [516 MB] [0.5 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1046532 [511 MB] [0.5 GB] Ethernet Bridge 002 for NET3.035 (Linux 2.0) Partition check: sda: sda1 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 16588k swap-space JAVA Binary support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian A. Lantz PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Thanks for any help - i can't install the rest of the system unless i get the cd mounted! Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .