This is a follow-up to my original question and how it was resolved.
Thanks again to those who gave me suggestions.
I finally understood that to load the Slackware 96, I needed to put the
basic files onto one of the hard drives. I put my selected series (A1,A2,.
. . XV1, XV2,XV3) on to C:. The Linux partions were on D: (i.e. swap &
native.) I used the LILO setup routine to load the files. (Note: one
interesting thing that did happen when the X files & applications were
loading was the monitor screen would blank out. For some reason, cntl/alt
would bring it back on, strange.)
Another interesting item that threw me off was when I logged in and asked
for "ls", I just got a couple of files! I found out that I need to do a "cd
/" to get the expected listing of files/directories. I still need to
configure X, but at least the basic O/S seems to be up and running.
Now, regarding the Panasonic CD-ROM. I knew the Linux was seeing the drive,
but for some reason things were konking out before I could get the system
up. What I finally did (once Linux was up and running, that is) was go to
the kernel modules and did a bit of modifying. Going to
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules and using the vi text editor ( I know there are others,
I am still feeling my way around with Linux,) I went down to the line for
SoundBlaster CDs and made the following modification:
removed # and added the CD-ROM address, thus
sbin/modprobe sbpcd=0x350,0
0x350 is the I/O address for the driver card and I used 0 for the "clone"
version. I don't know all the ins and outs yet, but at least I can get
Linux to see the contents of a CD now. I find I have to have a CD in the
CD-ROM when starting Linux and I cannot get the CD to come out while the O/S
is up, but at least the system is reading the CD's now. Progress.
So I am up and running now and this tale may be added to the collective memory
;-)
Dave Bernhardt
Boring, OR
