On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 11:41, jjheuring wrote: <snip> > ok part of my problem is that I have 2.2.19pre17-compact kernel. 'cause > that's the only image I could get to reconize my nic cards for a net > install. Any way I was able to find the ide-scsi.o module and some > others that belong in the scsi dir but could not find the sr_mod. > Looking at prior posts I get the impression that i'll have to do a > recompile (always wanted to anyway) > > I'm not finding much info on doing a recompile the Debian way searching > google Debian and the list archives. Will the howto via linuxdoc > suffice? Or is there a way to do this with out recompiling? I think I'm > only missing the sr_mod. > > Thanks again. Hope the above wasn't too much rambling.
I don't remember using (or specifically invoking) sr_mod in the years I've been burning CDR's. Why don't you try: insmod sg #sg = scsi generic For compiling kernels the painless way (as far as I'm concerned, anyway) use "kernel-package"