On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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???
You don't have to tell it to the install program, you have to tell it to the kernel. When you boot the cd you get the kernel "boot:" line on the very first screen; you have to enter the params here. You can also get some help by pressing F1.
