DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM

1997-11-19 Thread darren morin
As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question,  Since I'm a
newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS
rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed.  My question
involves installing the SONY CDU31A.

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). What do I do with it?  I type in the numbers for
IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for itand never stops, forcing
me to CTRLALTDEL and having to start all over again.  PLEASE HELP!!!
I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM
again (I printed out the Debian Linux Installation and getting started
manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8
times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to
install CDRom inteface from the menu.

P.S.  Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought
Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it
going...).
Sincerely, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-(
   

  


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Re: DEBIAN QUESTION RE: INSTALLATION SONY CD-ROM

1997-11-19 Thread Lindsay Allen

Darren,

I saved this message some time back. I don't have one of these myself, but
the argument you need seems to be

0x340 cdu31a_irq=5


From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 19 13:50:03 1997
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:32:59 +0100 (MET)
From: Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: cdu31a
Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 10:35:19 +0800
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On 14 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 A friend is trying to convert to Debian from Slakware.  He's using
 buzz-fixed off an Info Magic cdrom, and can't get the installation
 boot disk to recognize his cdu31a.
 
 At the lilo prompt, he's type
   linux cdu31a=0x230,0
 
 This lilo parameter worked fine under slakware.
 
 Any suggestions?

This gave me the hardest time of installation too and i lost two days
being without a reasonably working system trying to find this out and
reinstalling numerous times until Bruce gave me the right advice:

Try:

modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5

If you use modconf (the module configuration menu) use the arguments

cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5

Adapt as needed.

It's all stated in the kernel documentation included with the sources 
which are not present upon the stage of the base system installation. And
the information *present* during installation time is somewhat misleading
because the old scheme of passing parameters to LILO doesn't work with the
new 2.0.xx kernels. This should be revised in the setup configuration. Or
is it already for Debian-1.2 release?
 P. *8^)
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, darren morin wrote:

 As it is getting very late for me here, I have a question,  Since I'm a
 newbie, (no stones, please) I have followed the instructions using the DOS
 rawrite-2 tool, constructed all seven floppy images needed.  My question
 involves installing the SONY CDU31A.
 
 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). What do I do with it?  I type in the numbers for
 IRQ and whatever, and it starts looking for itand never stops, forcing
 me to CTRLALTDEL and having to start all over again.  PLEASE HELP!!!
 I've tried everything I know, just as long as I don't get another RTFM
 again (I printed out the Debian Linux Installation and getting started
 manual by Boris Beletsky, by the way). Im following along, but I've tried 8
 times just to get this thing going and as far as I have gotten is up to
 install CDRom inteface from the menu.
 
 P.S.  Just in case something else goes wrong, I'm letting you know I bought
 Partition Magic so I could split my WIN 95 and Linux up (if I ever get it
 going...).
 Sincerely, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-(

 
   
 
 
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