> 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> > ummm... does it say something like "no pci bios found" in the bootup messages? I had a compaq 486 that had scsi and net built in and never could get linux to run on it. Compaq had done something funny with the pci bios. It was located above normal accessable memory. There was a tool to relocate the pci bios down to where it was supposed to go (available for download from compaq). This was back in the deb 1.1 or 1.2 days (just after the switch to elf). The newer kernels should pick up on this, I think. Check your boot up messages to confirm that it does recognize the pci bus. If it does, then using the boot options (as mentioned in another response) should get you there. If not, I'll look through the dust and see if I still have that utility from Compaq.
jim > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null >
