Hello again, I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia) and tried MANY times to install
However, i get consistent errors: hdc: irq timeout: statue 0xd0 hdc: ATAPI reset complete hdc: irq timeout: status 0xd0 end_request: I/O error, dev=16:00, sector <nnn> note thaat <nnn> is a number that changes on every occurrentce of the error i also noted on 1 occasion that statue 0x00 was reported (can't perfectly recall the rest of the erorr but i believe it was as above except the status changed sometimes this just loops for a while, other times dselect advises that the file is non-existant (when you know and i know fine well that the file DOES exist) then continues and other times dselect just carries on unpacking/skipping files. when dselect does continue, the cd rom behaves as though there was chewing gum around the spindle - incredibly slow Also, it is often that the cd rom will refuse to boot or boots VERRRRRRRY slowly when booting from it. So far i have tried: warm booting from cd (so windows drivers stay in place ?) cold booting (including leaving machine turned off overnight in case cd rom was overheating) booting from DOS and have on 1/3 tries managed to get to dselect where sooner or later (normally sooner!) above errors appear i have also tried, after having installed the base system: * edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom / hdc=noprobe" as two seperate lines in file (picked this up from an old post to this list - i'm sorry to say that i don't know what it is supposed to do or whether it is correct ?) * edit /etc/lilo.conf; insert "hdc=cdrom hdc=serialize" as two seperate lines in file (see above - sorry) * mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom and asking dselect to read to from mounted partition * edit /etc/fstab; insert "/dev/hdc iso9660 /cdrom"; don't reboot/reboot (both) immediately after editing file and asking dselect to read from partition listed in /etc/fstab i have also discovered that i cannot ftp to myself at the moment ! i started copying the whole cd to my linux partition but after waiting 10 minutes or more (without errors though) reset the machine figuring there wouldn't be enough room for the whole cd plus the installation (maybe not enough for the cd alone ?) just to prove that the cd was readable windows reads the cd well enough and i have traversed the entire directory tree trying to get windows to report an error - no result the cdrom is an ATAPI 24X Diamond Data (which i believe is manufactured by Mitsubishi) other h/ware is a 2Gb hard-drive make unknown (sorry again!) a sb-16 (genuine) - either it came packaged with the cd rom or the other way round 2Mb S3d ViRGE video card P133 1.44Mb floppy 32Mb RAM 33.6K modem so far i have achieved - getting reasonably silly on some lovely, very expensive red wine that i was saving - avoiding throwing said red wine all over computer - massive amounts of frustration - deep regrets that i didn't further congest the i/net bandwidth by ftp'ing the whole distribution (as i have done about 3 times previously) any help given will be deeply appreciated
