It is an IDE drive. I didn't see any evidence of the drive in the boot messages. I also tried an old Red Hat boot disk and I *did* see a message about ide0, which I presume is the CD-ROM drive.
1. What should I try so that the kernel can detect my CD-ROM drive? 2. Otherwise, can I install this old copy of Red Hat, then install Debian (potato) in its place, and, if so, how? Thanks again for your help, -Daniel In a message dated Fri, 21 Sep 2001 9:22:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:50:05PM -0400 wrote: > > I am using a CD-ROM which I have just bought and which is labeled Debian > > 2.2rev3 i386, which I believe is "potato". I created the boot disks using > yup, that's potato. > > > I am prompted to configure the keyboard, then to set up a swap partition, > > then a linux partition. > > When I am prompted for the installation medium, I only get: > > /dev/fd0 > > /dev/fd1 > > harddisk > > mounted > > It looks like for some reason the kernel didn't detect your cdrom. What > sort of cdrom is it? (ide?). Do you see any messages at boot related to a > cdrom (either watch the boot sequence or use 'dmseg' from a shell). > > > > > Am I using the wrong floppies? Thanks, again, for your help. > It sounds to me like you are doing it right. > > -David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
