Hi, You are much better off WITHOUT PCMCIA from an installation standpoint. I do not know the exact steps to follow to get the "standard" CDROMs to work though as my installation was much more complicated.
In any case, it is probably a matter of using the "modconf" utility, which I believe gets you back into a screen that you saw during the install. From there, you must choose the "correct" set of drivers. I think the generic SCSI stuff says it's loaded by default, but you must also choose a few other SCSI related items like SCSI CDROM, and perhaps Mistumi support. It will tell you right away if it fails or suceeds, as it puts it into the running kernel. You may have to play around, selecting various SCSI things. I'm sure other people can elaborate, probably off the top of their head. Once you DO get the CDROM working, it will be accessed through a device such as /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 but probably will not work from /dev/cdrom until you set that up. (It is easy once you know what real device name it uses like the two listed above.) You can try the following commands, and see they work: mount /dev/scd0 /mnt or mount /dev/sr0 /mnt If you have the device name correct it will mount the CD. To unmount it, type: "umount /mnt" To actually install the "good" stuff using the CD, you use the "deselect" program. This will take a while to get comfortable with, but after a while it's great. The first thing you must do is select ACCESS (the default) and select MULTI-CD as the medium to use for installing. You then must specify the device name. It will mount it, and bring you to the next step UPDATE. This builds a database of the known packages, and their dependencies. The next step is SELECT. This is where you navigate through the list of installed packages (using up and down arrow) and "+" to select for install. There are several keystrokes you must learn but help is available. Of ALL things, this is the most complicated part of using linux in my opinion. And if you choose a package that needs others, it will bring you into a sub screen where you must select the dependency packages using "+" like before. Hitting return will either bring you back to the main list, or put you back into more dependency problems, repeat until RETURN works. I started by printing out several FAQs, and the dselect tutorial which is 9 pages. It is very well written. The dselect program again is a little confusing at first, but don't get frustrated. It is actually there to make life easier as you will realize later, when it makes sure you get everything you need. Unfortnately without a linux capable ISP you (and I) can't use the newer apt-get installation program. In any case this user-list has been EXTREMELY helpful to me, and you will find the people are a great bunch. I am trying to put a little back in form of support. John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
