>> I've recently installed Debian on my ThinkPad 360ce and I'm not sure how to
>> configure
>> it for my parallel port CD-ROM. I've read lots of documentation and tried
>> several methods:
>>
>> /dev/hdb
>> /dev/lp0
>> /dev/ppa
>> all to no avail.
I think you have to have a pretty recent kernel (2.0.30 -pre something) with
appropriate
drivers compiled (ppa). If that is a BackPack CD, I have seen couple a post
about those
under Linux - Dejanews search might bring up something.
>> I also tried the mount command:
>>
>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /CD-ROM
>>
>> and it didn't work either.
No wonder. /dev/hdb is the second IDE device in a system (slave in first
channel),
and has very little to do with parallel port. You might also want to try
/cdrom instead
of /CD-ROM, as this seems to be the default place to mount the CD in all the
Linux
systems I've seen.
>> I have not yet installed the PCMCIA Card Services which brings me to another
>> problem:
>> whenever I try to use dselect to install the package from my floppy drive I
>> get all sorts of
>> I/O errors.
Some Thinkpads need some options with kernel (floppy=thinkpad) to get it
working.
What sort of errors?
You might also try copying the file from floppy into a dir and 'dpkg -i
package-name',
which installs the package. Dpkg is the real package handling tool, and
dselect is the
interface to it. Man dpkg for more options.
>> All suggestions, tips, and 'newbie bashings'
>> welcome.
No bashing allowed here.
--j
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