On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, Steven wrote:
>David R. Bernhardt wrote:
>>
>> 486DX w/2 HD's (Maxtor 7546, 500+mb ea.), a Panasonic
>> 2X CD-ROM drive, a 3.5" FD plus tape BU, 32mb RAM.
>> I have been trying to load Slackware 96.
>> Note on the CD-ROM SoundBlaster card: the card is
>> set up for I/O ports of 0x310 and 0x350 only.
>>
>> if I just let the boot disk run thru its routine, it
>> does not recognize the CD-ROM,
>
>This is your problem. Believe it or not, Linux does
>not support your CDrom drive. I was in exactly the
>same position when I first tried Linux. I had a
>Creative CD200 CDrom drive that connected through
>my SoundBlaster card. After many days of frustration,
>I finally found some documentation which said that
>the CD200 drive is not supported in Linux.
Either you have such an old system or you have missinterpreted the
document which you read, if one looks at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help one will see that a CD200
IS supported.
As to the reasons it not being loaded at install time is possably a
result that it does not can the port addresses given by the person
with the problem.
Read on.
>
>Fortunately, you have a straightforward solution. If you
>don't already have a DOS partition on drive C: create one
>on drive D: (40-50meg should do). Using DOS, copy the
>entire A series from the CDrom drive to the DOS partition.
>You'll find the A series on the CDrom under the /slakware
>directory.
>
>Now boot and run COLOR.GZ. Under SELECT THE SOURCE MEDIA,
>choose INSTALL FROM HD PARTITION. This should enable you
>to install the basic Slackware system and get it up and
>running. Later, you can use the same procedure to install
>any other packages you want: use DOS to copy them from
>the CDrom to the DOS partition and then use pkgtool in
>Linux to install them.
A good solution, qua work-around.
>
>> Although I am reasonably competent with DOS/WIN/C plus
>> working on the hardware, my practical experience with
>> UNIX/Linux is very limited.
I have slackware 3.4 on a 486/dx 66 but not with such a cdrom,
however i have a friend who once had such a machine and a CD200 via
his soundblaster card, he used to install via his cdrom so it does
work, i would imagen the there is the need to use an append command
at the lili prompt not a mount command which was seen by me in the
origanal post about this problem.
However i cannot supply exacht examples of how my friend did this,
however i can say it "does" work.
Maybe a mail to the linux-hardware list will help you more, there are
some great guys there who have far more knowlage about this sort of
configuration problems than i.
>
>Don't be discouraged. You've hit a particularly nasty
>problem right at the beginning. It's going to be much
>easier from now on.
The saying in The Netherlands is;
He who keeps at it "will" win.
>
>If you have any other problems, please don't hesitate
>to contact me. I'm running Slackware 3.5 on a couple
>of 486s, so I should be able to help.
Huum, well you also have CD200 support then as slackware 3.5 has it.
i have a machine which runs 3.4 and support is there.
Read;
./linux/Documentation/Configure.help use the node in less to grep for
CD200 which will show more info files as well which you can consult
for more information.
Simply saying there is no support is not right, however it could be
"flakey" the documentation is still the same in the 2.2.x kernel
versions, so i presume at least it does work, otherwise it would
state that in ./linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c .
>
>Cheers,
>Steven
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Regards Richard
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