THANKS and Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-23 Thread M . Arifi Koseoglu
John Hasler wrote: > Would it be possible to create an easily found README describing the > special kernels, what each one supports, and why one might need to use it? > The absence of such a file caused me considerable grief. I could not agree more. I cannot describe how frustrated I was when I

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-23 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, John Hasler wrote: > Would it be possible to create an easily found README describing the > special kernels, what each one supports, and why one might need to use it? > The absence of such a file caused me considerable grief. > I second tha

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Bruce writes: > You need a special boot floppy for the 53c810. It's at > ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz . Special_Boot-6 worked for me. I got it from LastMinute/SpecialKernels on the I-Connect CDROM. The install failed to run 'depmod -a', though, leading to symptoms like those des

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread Bruce Perens
> NCR SCSI 53c810 You need a special boot floppy for the 53c810. It's at ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/boot1440.bin.gz . If you continue to have problems, get into the shell and run "lsmod" and "cat /proc/filesystems". Both should list the ISO driver. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS M

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread John Hasler
M. Arifi Koseoglu writes: > Everything goes fine till the "dselect" phase. I boot, install > the base system, select loadable modules (and this is important: I *DO* > select cdrom support *AND* isofs support, and *DOUBLE-CHECK* after- > wards that they are marked with a +), install the kernel, rebo

Re: Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread Dale Scheetz
You will need to have scsi_mod.o and sr_mod.o installed as well, for this to work. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Cree

Mounting CDROM during installation

1996-10-22 Thread M . Arifi Koseoglu
Hello ! I am having a veird problem while trying to install the Debian 1.1 distribution. I have a boot disk with NCR SCSI support (that is my SCSI controller), a root disk, and the 3 1.44 in base disks. Everything goes fine till the "dselect" phase. I boot, install the base system, select loadab