Soundblaster 16 PnP: Newbie Installation Success! (sort of)
I am a newbie who was trying to install Debian from a CD-ROM that was attached to a Soundblaster 16 PnP card. The problem: when I ran dselect, I could never give it an answer to block device name that would find my CD-ROM, so I was unable to get information off of the CD. My solution: - I opened the computer case. - I found the cable connecting the CD-ROM drive to the Soundblaster card. - I disconnected the cable from the card and connected it to one of the IDE interfaces on my motherboard (on my old motherboard, I suppose I would have connected it to the hard drive controller card). - (I did some minor tinkering with the BIOS, but I don't think it was necessary.) - (I checked to make sure that Windows 95 was still working properly with this set up; it was.) - I reinstalled the Debian base system on my hard drive. - When I ran dselect, and it asked for block device name, I entered: /dev/hdb (failure) /dev/hdc (failure) /dev/hdd (SUCCESS!) I now have the default Debian installation on my hard disk. I realize that this was a clumsy, inelegant, klugy solution, and that the Debian wizards (among whom I hope to be someday) will probably have a good laugh about it, but it did work for me, and it might work for some of the other newbies who have their CD-ROM attached to a Soundblaster PnP. If all else fails, give it a try. Obviously, I cannot play audio CD-ROMs with this set up, but I would rather install and play with Debian GNU Linux than to play CDs on my computer. I hope this helps some other frustrated newbies out there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Soundblaster 16 PnP: Newbie Installation Success! (sort of): Correction
I was mistaken on one point: it turns out that I can still play audio CDs with my CD drive connected directly to the motherboard (Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits album sounds just fine as I type this). Special thanks to Nathan E Norman and Bill Leach for pointing this out to me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation SONY CD-ROM
darren morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I have the Debian Linux edition CDRom from the boot! magazine (Nov. '97) :and I constructed my disks using the DOS rawrite-2 tool, and everything is :fine there. However, since I'm a newbie, my question is regarding in the :CD Rom installation. I have a SONY CDU31-A, and the prompt comes up during :installation asking me for a command line argument. What?!?! What is :it? (I have the port addresses in my Sound Blaster 16 manual, if that's :what its talking about). I too am having the same frustrations that Darren is with the disk from Boot magazine. I have been trying to ignore the device drivers part of the installation, but when I log onto the system, the system cannot find my CD-ROM to do dselect (I'm not sure, but I don't think it is finding my floppy drive, either). Questions: (1) Is there on-line documentation explaining in greater detail what needs to be done during the install device drivers exercise (it is not intuitive, at least to me)? The documentation that I have found on the disk and on-line so far just slides over this part of the installation. (2) If the answer to (1) is No, then: (a) Do I need to load a device driver during installation and issue commands to it so that my floppy drive will be recognized (a standard 3.5, 1.44 MB drive configured as drive a:)? (b) What should I do during the installation to get the system to recognize the CD-ROM attached to my Soundblaster 16 PnP (Win95 tells me it's a Matshita CR-581-M attached to a standard IDE/ESDI controller; the IRQ is 10; I have no idea what the port number is; all the jumpers have been removed). (c) Will I need to perform a mount command after I log onto the system as root? (3) At the moment, I am not sweating about my printer, mouse, or modem. I am presuming that once I get onto the CD, that I should be able to fix those things. Is this a good presumption? Right now, I have a skeletal system that I can play with to learn Unix commands (a valuable exercise in itself), but I would really like to get at all the riches waiting for me on the CD-ROM. Many thanks for your help! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
