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Hi all! Yesterday evening i started installation of Debian-1.1.5 being well aware about the need to use the bad_links_fix_1.1.5.tgz for fixing some troubles related with the spoiled CD-ROM which i received like a few others too. Using the 1,44" diskimages in buzz/disks-i386/current/ i managed without any major problem to partition my harddrive and install a base system. BTW, this is a well designed setup procedure to my mind. But here installation is over for me. My Sony CD-ROM drive CDU31A doesn't get recognized at all by the debian kernel, whereas there never was any problem with this for one year and a half with a Slackware-based setup. Also Win95 has no problems with this drive. Trying to install a loadable module via insmod or the Debian installation routines just yields a "Initialization of cdu31a failed". When giving the kernel the proper I/O adress and IRQ like it worked before (0x340,5) has no impact at all. In /dev there is not even mention made of a 'cdu31a' although there exists a 'cdu31a.o' in the place where all modules are to be found. My machine is a Vesa Local Bus 486DX-33 with 20MB RAM, two harddrives and the CDU31A on a ISA CD-ROM controller by Sony. This is my first encounter with Debian as well as with the 2.xx generation of the Linux kernel. I tried pretty everything to find out why the drive is not recognized. I even read the documentation provided on the CD-ROM by I-Connect and on the Debian WWW server. Regrettably the man pages are still not accesible with the barebones base installation. Right now i'm checking the Debian mailing list archives at "http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives" but i didn't find any hint so far... Well, i can't proceed with the installation and i am pretty disappointed up to this point that i'm so helpless right now. I need Linux for my everyday work and really need to have a working system ASAP. I'd really hope it is some dumb error of myself which prevents initialization of the CD drive but i just can't figure this out. Do you need more information or is this sufficient for having an idea about what is possibly a solution? TIA, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjGfUOgqiw1XE3/lAQGfZwP/SgDKq6KUaubacHilpFXjYwUrxL28QtNZ bUyOFIPXLv7aaxXZwcA9SQmknrxlxQjJMG98Pr6nZDSEn5ZwQ0CNCSGtlVH5N2vi 7px+rr8eJQeKvVaSwg3+BVFnWyE7do0b4Wds6TqFx6YM35e1KHCfUv/gs1nhRCRV Afo67e151yU= =nRUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----