On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:15:50AM -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > > I got Etch 4.0 r5 for 32 bit (i386) system. Perhaps I should have gotten > the 64 bit version?
shouldn't matter > I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed on the machine at present. Is it possible > to get a driver designation and feed it to the Debian installer? depends on CDD/DVDD type - anyway try all possibilities: check /proc/cmdline for any hint on special boot params, as described in Documentation/ide/ide.txt and Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd in kernel src tree. check dmesg output Note that that might depend on kernel is use, ubuntu's might have loaded/ compile-in an specific IDE driver that allows for drive recognition. To get details on your drive: for USB you'd use lsusb(1), then lsusb -d <ID> -v for SCSI (usually includes USB storage), lsscsi(1): lsscsi -cv for *IDE/ATA* try hdparm(8), hdparm -i /dev/<device> but cdrecord(1) should yield enough info, try 1st: % cdrecord -scanbus % cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus and see what devices you get, and which devID your drive is assigned, then % cdrecord dev=<devID> -inq % cdrecord dev=<devID> -prcap % cdrecord dev=<devID> -atip HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
