Hi Chas, thanks for taking the time.
> I just bought a Samsung Q10, a really nice and slick subnotebook. > > Unfortunately I don't have a clue how to get debian on it. > > > > It boots fine from the woody cd-rom and let's me format the drives > > etc., > > but when it comes down to load kernel modules it doesn't know where to > > turn to. When issuing "mount" I don't see the cdrom connected(?) by > > firewire. I haven't been able to google something useful. > > If I understand correctly, you are installing from an external > (firewire) cd-rom. When you get to the loading modules step, you need > to read data from the cd-rom, but don't have support for it yet. Exactly. Actually it happens when "Installation of Kernel and Modules"-Step. When I select this step the installer asks me from which media I'd like to load the kernel etc. Usually (with other systems) I am not queried for the media. The available options include floppy drives (which I don't have), the hd (which is empty) and "mounted", the already mounted fs ... The installation media is not among the options. I don't know if that is of any interest, but mount gets me that: /dev/ram0 on / type ext2 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda3 on /target type reiserfs (rw) > You > could try to see if knoppix supports the drive, and then see what > modules are loaded. > Whatever information you could get from a llinux > system that works with that drive could be helpful in setting it up in > debian. Thanks for giving directions. I am downloading knoppix at the moment and will feed back later. > Also, you could try installing from a different source. You > could do a network install or load the modules you need from a floppy. I tried that already, but with not much of a success. First I tried the net installer for sarge/sid. It started out fine and I was already wgetting all the neccessary stuff, but after no matter what module selection I do (tried a couple of them) I always run in this kind of errors: /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:133 | (grondend_new): Cannot load frontend module | /usr/lib/cdebconf/frontend/newt.so: libnewt.so.0.50: Actually this is not from my output, but from google, but is pretty accurate. It always complains about /home/martin/projects/debian-installer/tools/cdebconf/src/frontend.c:133 and then complains about different modules. I tried sarge and sid. The website says the installer is just for testing purposes anyway. So I figured it is too much to ask for help with it... I also downloaded two unofficial images which I understood would be netinstallers (woody-i386.iso) and (bootbf2.4), but they work just like the ordinary installation, > To provide any more specific help, I would need to know more about the > drive you are trying to get support for. Perhaps someone else on list > knows more about firewire drives than I do though. How do I know what drive it is? lspci is not available, but /proc/pci gives me something like this: Bus 2, device 3, function 1: Firewire (IEEE1394): PCI device 1180:0551 (Ricoh Co Ltd) (rev 0) IRQ 11. etc.... I'll feedback when I downloaded Knoppix, which is likely to be ended tonight (CET). Is this the right mailing list or should I go to debian-user? Cheers, Mariano > > -- > Chas Becht > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Public Key available on request) > www.unf.edu/~becc0003/ (or coenurus.org if my ISP is up) > "I'll need time. And squid." - Michael Yatskar >
