I have the same problem installing Debian, on a similar system as Steve.
Could not resolve the problem and am still waiting for "how tos". I am a
newbie to this OS and would like to learn more.
Please tailor answers that a layperson can understand.
Thank you.
Allen
In a message dated 4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
<< Subj: Re: problem with installation program
Date: 4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time
From: kmself@ix.netcom.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I'd encourage both of you to check this out further and communicate any
results to the installation/howto maintainers. Questions with
NCR53c series SCSI CDROMs have been appearing with some frequency of
late. I don't have direct experience, but know that web/usenet searches
are pretty thin on results.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:01PM -0500, Geopoliticus wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my
> book. I do however have SCSI peripherals. What I eventually ended up
> doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great!
I
> know that is not what you are looking for. Something I ran across however
> is a jumper on my CD ROM. It is labeled "Block". This jumper, if set,
> told the controller that it was dealing with a UNIX block device. If your
> CD ROM has a jumper like this try setting it the opposite of what it is
> currently set at. You may have some success. Good luck.
>
> Geo
>
> At 09:42 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Steven Burns wrote:
> >Dear Linux users:
> >
> >I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that
> >accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly,
> >
> >Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is
> >that I cannot get the installation program to start.
> >
> >It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed:
> >"NCR53c406a: no available ports found." See below.
> >
> >So far, I've looked into the problem as follows.
> >1. I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the
> >below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant.
> >2. I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org),
> >
> >but haven't found anything relevant there either.
> >3. I did internet searches with several search engines and the the
> >search text, "NCR53c406a: no available ports found." Snap.com returned
> >some webpages relating to "boot arguments for scsi peripherals." I
> >looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to
> >my situation. Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi
> >components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi.
> >
> >I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help
> >
> >me clear this hurdle.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Steven
> >
> >P.S. See details below.
> >-------------------------------
> >
> >The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation
> >program follows. (The failure is repeatable on my system.)
> >
> >1. Boot the computer from the debian CD.
> >2. The Welcome screen appears.
> > Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1!
> > ...
> >
> > This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from
> > kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1)
> >
> > Press <F1> for help, or <ENTER> to boot!
> > boot:
> >3. Press Enter.
> >4. A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop. The
> >following is the list of messages that remains on the screen.
> >
> >Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> >Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> >NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> >NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> >IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> >Starting kswapd v 1.5
> >Detected PS/2 Mouse port.
> >RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size
> >loop: registered device at major 7
> >PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022,
> >DID=7409
> >PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio
> >hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive
> >hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive
> >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> >ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
> >hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63
> >hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache
> >Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
> >Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> >FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> >md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> >NCR53c406a: no available ports found
> >--------------------------------------------
> >
> >The computer I'm using has the following components.
> >
> >CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU
> >
> >MOTHERBOARD: Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA
> >
> >FLOPPY: Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive
> >CD: 48x EIDE CD-ROM
> >HARD DRIVE: Maxtor 15.3 GB 5400 UDMA Hard Drive (Windows 98 is
> >installed on a 7326MB partition. The rest of the disk (7327MB) is free
> >space.)
> >
> >MEMORY: 128 MB SDRAM PC100
> >MODEM: 3-COM US Robotics 56k V.90 Fax Modem w/ voice speaker phone
> >
> >NETWORK CARD: PCI 32 bit 10/100 Network Card
> >SOUND CARD: Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128 Vibra Sound
> >VIDEO CARD: Matrox G400 32MB SGRAM AGP
> >
> >MONITOR: Sceptre Dragon Eye .27
> >KEYBOARD: PS2 108 key Windows 98 Keyboard
> >MOUSE: PS2 Mouse
> >SPEAKERS: 120 Watt Stereo Speakers
> >----------------------------------------------
> >
> >End.
> >
> >
> >
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