Thanks for your help, John. Taking your advice, here's what I found: My 2 hard drives appear in the dmesg list as hda and hdb, floppies as fd0 and fd1. The CD-ROM doesn't appear specifically, but I do get the following SCSI-related errors in dmesg:
NCR 53c406a: no available ports found Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! (Transcript of complete dmesg at http://americasisp.net/hp/debbie/curt/dmesg.txt) I saw nothing inside the PC that indicated this was an SCSI CD-ROM. Motherboard has 3 cards connected to it: 1. video board (outputs to monitor) 2. interface board(?) has IDE port (connects to HDDs), floppy port, serial port, game port, printer port 3. "CD-ROM DRIVE 16 BIT I/F CARD" -- goes to CD-ROM (Mitsumi 2x Model CRMC-FX0010, dated May '94) -- card also has stereo RCA output jacks Btw, when I select "/dev/scd0: SCSI" for the CD interface type, I get "No SCSI Adapter was detected, so I cannot access a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Please check that you really have a SCSI host adaptor and a SCSI CD-ROM drive. Check also that they are supported by Linux." I'm guessing I need to do something to initialize the SCSI card, if that is indeed what it is. Can anyone tell me what that something is? Thanks. Curt ------------------------- Subject: Re: can't install kernel/modules from cd-rom On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM -0400, Curt Salada wrote > Installing 2.1 on a 486, eliminating Win3.11. Going through > the steps in the Installation Main Menu, I get as far as > "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules." Program asks > me to select CD interface type. Each option (/dev/hda, > /dev/hdb, etc.), returns the same message: "Mount failed. The > CD-ROM was not mounted successfully." On 21 June, John Pearson replied: If it's on a cable of its own that connects to the same card (or the same area of the motherboard) as your hard disks, it's probably /dev/hdc or perhaps /dev/hdd, and you should check your BIOS to make sure that you haven't (e.g.) disabled the second IDE controller, and then make sure the cables are inserted correctly and the right way round. If it has its very own expansion card, or it plugs into a sound card things get more complicated, as you may have to configure the card, use special boot parameters or load a module before you can access it, depending on what kind of card it's plugged into; perhaps you should check it out, and then post again. ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
