Dirk, A few questions:
1. After you modified your lilo.conf, did you re-run /sbin/lilo? 2. How is your drive partitioned? 3. What drive letter is your CD-ROM under Windows 95? Under the Debian install, the ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drivers are installed by default (at least on my disk from Linux System Labs). 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. 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. 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
