I've been fighting this Debian install for 3 weeks and am about tired of it. If I don't get an answer here, then I am taking the damn CD to the skeet range. OK, here is what I got:
Debian 2.1 bootable CD, official type that comes in the box, has the Debian tm logo on it and the O'Rielly cow book in the box with it Desired packages: Perl(full install not just the basic package), Python, gcc, apache/httpd, mySQL Compaq Prolinea 4/66 20megsRAM < a 486> Fujitsu 4.3 HD partitioned as: hda1 := 2048 hda5 := 1024 <copied the Debian CD here in /Debian using xcopy in DOS> hda6 := 1024 <copied W31 & W95 here to make it easier to reinstall > hda7 := 0033 Linux swap <from previous install attempts> hda8 := 0033 somehow generated in one of the install attempts, delete later Netgear/Bay Network EA201 D2 NIC Adaptec AVA-1505A hooked to an internal IBM/Matsuhita CR-503-C CDROM is at SCSI#3 during DOS bootup it shows the card as Host Adapter #0 Port 140h Interrupt 10 Host Adapter SCSI ID = 7 One of the references that I found is at http://customer.support.redhat.com/rhoaprod/plsql/xxrh_know_pkg.srch2?p_id=1 20 and its example was aha152x=0x340,10,7 however, I believe that I should have aha152x=0x140,10,7 due to the IO address Now I can click Win95 Start, Shutdown to DOS, go to the CDROM as I:\ in Win98DOS, cd install, invoke boot.bat, select color, select USA keyboard, partition hda1 as ext2~>Write~>yes,~>Quit init&activate swap hda7, init /dev/hda1, "skip the bad block check since it has been done about 20 times without finding anything", mount as /, Install Operating System Kernel and Modules, Select CDROM as medium, select /dev/scd0 : SCSI, and bleewy "NO SCSI ADAPTER DETECTED" The question remains, where do I tell Debian to aha152x=0x140,10,7 in this process?? I don't see a place to pass these parameters to the install program. What am I missing??? Also, when I get to modules, what module do I load for the NIC?? Any help will be appreciated, Will
