I am resubmitting my question with a little more clarity. Sorry for the redundancy.
I got Debian installed. I currently do not have my cdrom mounted. I could not find any way to mount it during the installation. I also do not have a workable modem for this computer so I did not do a ppp connection, therefore I do not have any packages installed. How can I get my cdrom to work? It is a Mitsumi connected to an interface card. It worked under dos before I installed. The driver for it was mcdex or something like that. There was a module during install that should have worked but it failed. (I tried the others too.) Is this a kernel recompile thing? And how likely can I, tremendously green that I am, accomplish this? Jeff