Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
> I just setup my linux system last night and finished the generic
> install. I have a few questions on things that didn't work as I
> expected. I hope this is the right place to ask.
>
> Ok, my system is a pent 166 w/32MB RAM and two hard drives I found
> laying around (1.6GB, 2.0GB).
>
> I created a root partition of 60MB,
> /usr of 1000MB
> /var 360MB
> /home 1915MB
>
> I hope this is about correct.
>
> Anyways, My two questions / problems are:
>
> #1 I was not able to install my CD drive. I have a Wearnes 8X CD drive
> (IDE connection and a cheap sound card.) I found one selection on the
> driver disk for "Wearnes" and some other drives, but it failed on
> installation. I did not type in any parameters because I didn't know
> what it wanted.
>
> #2 I tried to use the FTP option in dselect and it comes up with the
> following error message:
>
> Net::FTP: Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405
> FTP ERROR
>
> I was able to connect to ftp.debian.org via ftp from the shell. Any
> idea what is wrong with this? Ideally, I would like to get this working
> using the ftp option. If I can't, what is the proper method of loading
> and installing packages.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug Thistlethwaite
>
Can't help you with #2 (never seen that error before, and I do use FTP), but
about #1: if your CD-ROM drive is connected to your computer via IDE (is this
what you meant by "IDE connection"), then its almost certainly an IDE/ATAPI
drive. This means you don't need a special CD-ROM driver. By default,
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drives are supported in the initial kernels you start with.
The problem is which device is it, since you have 2 hard drives (your hard
drives are IDE too right?). If your first hard drive is /dev/hda and the second
is /dev/hdb then try accessing your CD-ROM as /dev/hdc, but at this point I'm
just guessing.
Ed
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