ivan wrote: > > Hello, > > This is further to my post last titled "THIRD TIME - please help". I am > sorry but I haven't got a copy because I had to format my Win95 partition > and re-install. > Hey I know the feeling.
> No doubt you are all bored of this but I have tried all of the suggestions > given and still can't get Hamm to install from CD. > > The problem as described previously is an IRQ timeout error (0xd0) which > occurs repeatedly when installing Hamm from CD. > Here are a few possibilities: -Your CD-ROM is not set to slave if it is sharing a IDE channel with a HDD. -Your CD-ROM spins down and cannot spin-up fastenough to send data (causing a time-out) What would be nice to know: -what IDE channel is the CD-ROM on? -does the CD-ROM share a channel with a hard disk? -is the IDE channel on a soundcard? What you could try: -have someone else try to install from the CD (maybe it's bad?) -put the CD-ROM on a separate IDE channel if it currently is sharing one, or vice versa. -report back with more error messages if problems persist -install from FTP (I know it's slow, I have a 14.4Kbps modem and it took me a week to install Debian from FTP because of my ISP restrictions) > I see from the archives that several other people have discussed this but I > didn't see a solution proposed. Any ideas now ??? > Tell me where these archives are and maybe I'll find something in them (I haven't looked lately) > The disk is fine - Win95 reads it without a problem and with only the Hamm > base system installed I was able to copy from it to a directory in my Linux > partition until I ran out of room ( how did a 650Mb CD use up a 1.5Gb > partition BTW ? ) > All .deb files are compressed and normally expand to about twice their size. > During the installation I can hear the drive constantly speed up then slow > down then speed up etc... when dselect is operating and then finally it > grinds to a halt and errors occur. > Is anything installed or is it seeking continually "seeking". > I have a P166mmx with a 2.5Gb h/d, 32Mb memory, 1.44Mb floppy and 24X speed > ATAPI CD-ROM. The name of the CD-ROM is Diamond Data which I believe is > manufactured by Mitsubishi. > > I have previously installed Hamm on the system by FTP which ran perfectly > and even played music CD's but please don't tell me to reinstall by FTP as > this takes me about two days to download because of work commitments and > ISP time restrictions. > > The CD-ROM is supposed to be the official distribution which I purchased > from DVD Rent in Victoria, Australia. > > If you need more info to help please ask. > > TIA > > Ivan. > Mark Panzer