I am planning on getting a cable modem or DSL hooked up soon and am looking to setup a firewall (IP masq) for that connection.
I am having trouble getting Debian to install on my old 486-33. I have a Sony cdu31a attached to an ISA SoundBlaster MultiCD sound card. I created a rescue floppy and could not get the installer to recognize the CD-ROM. So I created the Driver floppy and 8 base floppies necessary to install the base system. During the install, I told the program to include the cdu31a module on I/O port0x230. The installation continued I rebooted from the boot floppy and now I am trying to get the rest of the system off the CDROM. I am in dselect and trying to Assign (?) the location to find the packages. I select CDROM and is asks me to insert the CD in the drive and enter the block device name. What's the block device name? I tried /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdu31a, /dev/sonycd and none of these worked... Is there some other naming convention? I looked in /proc/modules and it reported that block device 15 was a cdu31a. This leads me to believe that the module was installed. I also cannot mount the CDROM... mount -t iso9660 -r ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom gives me an error message about /dev/cdrom. Is there something else I should try??? (outside of getting an IDE expansion card and an IDE CDROM, that is) Thanks in advance for your help! .Mike.
