My goal is to get dselect to recognize my cdrom drive so that I can install applications.
After booting the OS & logging on as /, I enter dselect. I choose [0. Access] and select multicd. The cd is in the drive. System responds: >I see that /dev/cdrom exists and is a block device. Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: So I accept the default. System doesn't like that and responds: >mount: the kernal does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device. > (maybe 'insmod driver'?) > unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt, type iso9660 >Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]: And from there I'm stuck. I'm a linux newbie; yesterday was my first attempt to install a system. Since I couldn't get the cdrom working, I made installation floppies of Debian 2.1 (slink) from the debian.org site. Installation went smoothly. I even successfully installed the cdrom driver correctly after divining the port address, DMA, and IRQ settings from the interface card. When I boot the OS, the boot banner says: > mcd=0x320,9: Mitsumi status, type and version: 10 D 2 Double Speed CD ROM and it also says: > Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! > scsi: o hosts > scsi: detected total More hardware info: Micron 486DX 100, CD is Mitsumi FX001D. The interface card on the CD says CD-ROM Drive 16BIT I/F Card 74-1881A. I'm kind of confused about the SCSI failed initialization msg, b/c my HD is IDE and seems to work fine. The Mitsumi manual says nothing about the interface card being SCSI or IDE. Did I leave out any other relevant information? Oh yeah, I'm a Gemini. thanks in advance for any suggestions.
