Kent West declaimed: > Joe Wise wrote: > > >I just got my CD this afternoon. My CD shows up in the CMOS, but I > >cannot get it to boot. One common gotcha is that an IDE device must be the bus master in order, easy to forget.
> >So, I made the floppies and booted using them. If it didn't see your CD-ROM at that point, there's something wrong with the hardware, unless it's a really weird brand. > >Now I am installing the kernal. Still no CD. What do I need > >on the floppies to pull this off? I have been looking all over the > >Debian web page for what files I need. I downloaded the drivers file, > >and went through the tgz thing with windows. I just need to know what > >files it is looking for when it says: "insert driver disk." I'm stumped on this one. A different idea: scrounge a Win95/98/Me boot floppy. If it brings up your system in DOS with your CD-ROM working (there's a good chance it will) then you can run the INSTALL.BAT command on the CD to load Linux and install Debian. If it doesn't support your CD-ROM, you should be able to download the DOS driver (e.g. CDROM_BRAND.SYS) and add it to the boot floppy's CONFIG.SYS file, copy the line with OAKCDROM.SYS. [Note: some may regard the above as heresy, but then why is that INSTALL.BAT file on the CD?] HTH, Paul -- Paul Mackinney | Another look at Sept 11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.copvcia.com/
