I need help installing and I'm at an impasse. I'm trying to install debian linux in an old Dell 486, with three AT-1500BT NICs and an old Adaptec SCSI card with two drives attached. I'm able to get the drives recognized by giving the command
linux aha152x=0x340,11,7 at the "boot:" prompt. The install goes along, but when I get to the step to install/configure the modules so that I can complete everything by FTP, the card is not being recognized. I get the message "Installing module lance. If the device isn't there or isn't configured correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute". The three AT-1500BT cards are configured as follows: Adapter 1: I/O-0x300,IRQ-5,DMA-5 Adapter 2: I/O-0x320,IRQ-4,DMA-6 Adapter 3: I/O-0x360,IRQ-3,DMA-7 When I select "lance" as my internet driver it says "no parameter information available" so I'm guessing based on various things from the bootprompt howto I am guessing that the options on the line should be "5,0x300,0,0,eth0" reflecting IRQ-5, I/O address, probing for DMA and use the twisted pair connection instead of the coax, and use the card for eth0. I also tried "5,0x300,eth0" in case the installed didn't need the rest. I see myself as having three options: 1. Use a newer distribution. Since I'm using an old Hamm distribution CD - I could get the new Slink. I don't think it would make a difference with this problem. I also could burn a CD to install Potato. Though if I could get this card working I could update fairly easily. 2. Take out all the cards but one, to make sure that I've got the right card plugged into my network. But still the card, should have been found even if one of the other cards was plugged into the network. 3. Install from the Hamm CD - configure Networking and upgrade from there. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Saratoga Springs Public Library phone (518) 584-7860 x 211 49 Henry St fax (518) 584-7866 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
