darren morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) :and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is :fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the :CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during :installation asking me for a "command line argument". What?!?! What is :it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's :what its talking about).
I too am having the same frustrations that Darren is with the disk from Boot magazine. I have been trying to ignore the "device drivers" part of the installation, but when I log onto the system, the system cannot find my CD-ROM to do dselect (I'm not sure, but I don't think it is finding my floppy drive, either). Questions: (1) Is there on-line documentation explaining in greater detail what needs to be done during the "install device drivers" exercise (it is not intuitive, at least to me)? The documentation that I have found on the disk and on-line so far just slides over this part of the installation. (2) If the answer to (1) is "No," then: (a) Do I need to load a device driver during installation and issue commands to it so that my floppy drive will be recognized (a standard 3.5", 1.44 MB drive configured as drive a:)? (b) What should I do during the installation to get the system to recognize the CD-ROM attached to my Soundblaster 16 PnP (Win95 tells me it's a Matshita CR-581-M attached to a standard IDE/ESDI controller; the IRQ is 10; I have no idea what the port number is; all the jumpers have been removed). (c) Will I need to perform a "mount" command after I log onto the system as root? (3) At the moment, I am not sweating about my printer, mouse, or modem. I am presuming that once I get onto the CD, that I should be able to fix those things. Is this a good presumption? Right now, I have a skeletal system that I can play with to learn Unix commands (a valuable exercise in itself), but I would really like to get at all the riches waiting for me on the CD-ROM. Many thanks for your help! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .