I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM. The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM.
The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and starts the installation - but when it gets to the "Install Base OS Kernal" step, it asks me where the CDROM is, then fails to mount it no matter which of the many choices I give it (SCSI, IDE ctrl 1-4, device 1-2). Somewhere I read that at the boot prompt you have to type something like "linux ide2=0x170,0x376". I looked in my windows 98 ctonrol panel, system, device manager, hard disk controllers, second ide controller, and found the settings for it: 0x170, 0x 376, IRQ 15. I typed them in at the boot prompt: linux ide2=0x170,0x376,0xf but I got the same behavior as before, ie it can't mount the cd rom during the install. Anybody have answers, hints? Thanks.... -- Mr. Lindsay Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Microsystems Inc. 606-225-8173