Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Ivan, From the info supplied, it seems you may have some yet Ill defined incompatibility between, Linux and your ATAPI CD, since the CD does work under Win95. You can try reading another CDROM. just do assess whether (unlikely) some problem with the Debian CD) This is only a slight difficulty so far as installation goes. I' ve had to proceed as follows to install Debian in a minimal partition on a Win95 dedicated company Laptop. Some of the following is just copied form the standard Installation directions. Be sure to read them. 1) Make a LX (linux) folder in your WIN95 partition and copy the following files from your CDROM: 2) resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base2_0.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat and loadlin.exe, Rawrit2.exe, and the Packages file from hamm on the CD. Also to make your mouse usefull fast also copy in: gpm-.deb from Section misc , where - herein indicates the version info gpm is GeneralPurposeMouse libgpm1 from Section libs which is needed by gpm. Also at this stage I prepare for the powerfull file manager mc-Midnight Commander, which would additional require: libcomerr-.deb, from Section Lib libext2fs-.deb" libgpmg1-.deb" slang-.deb Section oldlibs mc-.deb from Section utils 3) Use Rawrit2 to make the Rescue floppy 4) During the Installation starting from the rescue floppy, specify when requested that /dev/hda1/lx has the installation files During the kernel/modules configuration do specify the vfat module so you can read long file names within your Win95 partition. 5) When the base installation is done you'll go through a reboot some etc and dselect will be brought up. Record the DSELECT command but QUIT from that menu. 6) Enter script Today.txt to automatically record what you are doing in Today.txt, which is terminated by exitlater It's nice at this point to see things in color by alias ls="ls --color" or by editing your .bashrc file by ae .bashrc followed by a source .bashrcto implement Do an ls /to see the colorization effect 7) Get the mouse working with mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt dpkg-i /mnt/lx/libgpmg-.deb dpkg-i /mnt/lx/gpm-.deb Now you are enabled to Mark with left button by hold&drag and Copy-onto with right button. Thus later recording long file names and text blocks won't be a pain. Do Alt-F2 and login as root to the 2nd console. ae to start an elementary editor, into which you can copy needed info. You get between console screens with Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc. I recommend that now you similarly install mc via dpkg-i /mnt/lx/(the list for mc stuff above, one at a time). With mc you can now start looking through your installation in progress to see what is going. dpkg and dselect use subdirectories of /var/lib/dpkg to operate. You can read therein, but DO NOT alter files. 8) See if you can run pppconfig, pon (provider on line by ppp) after completing your ppp configuration and connect with your IP at this point. You can monitor your ppp attempts withcat /var/log/ppp.log 9) At this point under dselect You can try doing the rest of the Installation from a) the cranky CDROM b) by FTP if your access time isn't costly or 10 10) within dselect a) under ACCESS methods, specify Mounted Specify that the Packages file is in /mnt/lx b) UPDATE from the Packages file c) within SELECT, there will already be indicated a large number of files recommended to enrich your installation. write them down or Copy into your open ae docment including the section they are in/ d) when done Save the ae file, say needed.txt and copy it cp needed.txt /mnt/lx QUIT dselect e) reboot and open Win95 f) copy needed files from the CDROM into C:\lx g) reboot under linux h) start dselectand install the files from the C:\lx. The common hardest part of these options is getting used to dselect which doesn't at all mind being aborted with Ctrl-C and restarted later. MarvS = >Ivan wrote: > > At 11:56 AM 18-10-98 +0100, you wrote: > > > >> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > >> and tried MANY times to install > > > >You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from > >those... > > > >Matthew
Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Ruud de Bruin writes: > Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > > and tried MANY times to install > > > However, i get consistent errors: > > > hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 > > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > > hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 > > end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector > > Maybe the CDROM is broken? I've ordered some time ago Debian 2.0 from a US > company and had the same kind of errors. After receiving a replacement CD > for free the problem was solved. > > Regards, Ruud. Try lsl - http://www.lsl.com.au I've had several CD sets of Debian from them, with never a problem. Will cost about $12, but you wouldn't have to wait on AusPost as I did.. John.
Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
At 11:56 AM 18-10-98 +0100, you wrote: > >> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) >> and tried MANY times to install > >You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from >those... > >Matthew > Matthew, appreciate your help but i wonder whether that will enable me to load the rest of the installation from the cd as that is the biggest problem i have at the moment. what do you (or others) think ? Ivan
Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > and tried MANY times to install You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from those... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) > and tried MANY times to install > However, i get consistent errors: > hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 > hdc: ATAPI reset complete > hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 > end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector Maybe the CDROM is broken? I've ordered some time ago Debian 2.0 from a US company and had the same kind of errors. After receiving a replacement CD for free the problem was solved. Regards, Ruud.
THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Hello again, I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) and tried MANY times to install However, i get consistent errors: hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector note thaat is a number that changes on every occurrentce of the error i also noted on 1 occasion that statue 0x00 was reported (can't perfectly recall the rest of the erorr but i believe it was as above except the status changed sometimes this just loops for a while, other times dselect advises that the file is non-existant (when you know and i know fine well that the file DOES exist) then continues and other times dselect just carries on unpacking/skipping files. when dselect does continue, the cd rom behaves as though there was chewing gum around the spindle - incredibly slow Also, it is often that the cd rom will refuse to boot or boots VERRRY slowly when booting from it. So far i have tried: warm booting from cd (so windows drivers stay in place ?) cold booting (including leaving machine turned off overnight in case cd rom was overheating) booting from DOS and have on 1/3 tries managed to get to dselect where sooner or later (normally sooner!) above errors appear i have also tried, after having installed the base system: * edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom / hdc=noprobe" as two seperate lines in file (picked this up from an old post to this list - i'm sorry to say that i don't know what it is supposed to do or whether it is correct ?) * edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom hdc=serialize" as two seperate lines in file (see above - sorry) * mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom and asking dselect to read to from mounted partition * edit /etc/fstab; insert "/dev/hdciso9660 /cdrom"; don't reboot/reboot (both) immediately after editing file and asking dselect to read from partition listed in /etc/fstab i have also discovered that i cannot ftp to myself at the moment ! i started copying the whole cd to my linux partition but after waiting 10 minutes or more (without errors though) reset the machine figuring there wouldn't be enough room for the whole cd plus the installation (maybe not enough for the cd alone ?) just to prove that the cd was readable windows reads the cd well enough and i have traversed the entire directory tree trying to get windows to report an error - no result the cdrom is an ATAPI 24X Diamond Data (which i believe is manufactured by Mitsubishi) other h/ware is a 2Gb hard-drive make unknown (sorry again!) a sb-16 (genuine) - either it came packaged with the cd rom or the other way round 2Mb S3d ViRGE video card P133 1.44Mb floppy 32Mb RAM 33.6K modem so far i have achieved - getting reasonably silly on some lovely, very expensive red wine that i was saving - avoiding throwing said red wine all over computer - massive amounts of frustration - deep regrets that i didn't further congest the i/net bandwidth by ftp'ing the whole distribution (as i have done about 3 times previously) any help given will be deeply appreciated
