In your email to me, Chris Huddleston, you wrote: > > Hello, > > I have recently installed Debian onto our department's new server and we > would like to install Debian onto the another server purchased by our > department. > > The problem here is that the server has a SCSI hard drive and an IDE CDROM > (creative labs 6x). I am using special kernel 6 boot disk to install the > base system. Under the CDROM driver section of the installation, there a > list of propreitory CDROMs but none to support the Creative Labs CDROM. > > Someone suggested installing the base system, without CDROM modules, > reconfiguring the kernel on our other server with IDE CDROM support and > transfering it onto the new server. > > Has anyone else been faced with this problem and is reconfiguring the kernel > on our other server the only way to install the Debian packages from CDROM ?
I believe that you can use the kernel you are using now. The cdrom is compiled into the kernel, and not a module. You have a regular ATAPI type cdrom. Watch for it as you boot off the boot disk.... it should be /dev/hda if you have no other IDE devices in the system. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
