Hi. I am doing a floppy install of debian. I am at the point of installing the driver modules but am very confused. I have a 486sx computer with a 408mb hard drive and 16megs. of ram. I have made the first partition swap with 32 megs and the rest a boot primary linux partition.
Anyway at the driver installation page I went to Block disks and disk like devices. I installed, though I don't know what they do: Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. I could not install one module though it really sounds important: xd xt hard disk controller I get a message like: Installation failed /lib/modules/2.0.36/blocked/xd.0: init_module: device or resource busy Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would seem to fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see mitsumi cd-rom and mitsumi cd-rom with extended features. When I try to install these I get an error message like: /lib/modules/2.0.36//cdrom/mcd.0 : init_module: device or resource busy eval: 1: syntax error : eof in backquote substitution script: cd /dev && rm -f cdrom && ln -s cdrom eval: 1: syntax error: eof in backquote substitution Could anyone give me some advice? Should I try some of the other modules like aztcd, cdrom, optcd, cm206 ? Do I need to enter something in the argument section on any of the above? Could that be why the installation failled? I am sorry to be such a bother. It's probably hard to understand why someone with my lack of understanding would try to install. This is just for my home use. If I cannot complete the install tonight do my partitions stay intact? I am a man but I am nearly having tears of frustration, for as I was typing this out a few minutes ago with a Win98 sitting nearby I suffered a fatal exception and lost all the detailed questions that I am asking here just before sending it. Aghhhhhhhhh Jeff