Hey, When your installation starts up (before it asks you if you want to use color or not), check for a line that says: "hdc (or hdd, it matters what slot the wire from your CD-ROM to your I/O board) Mitsumi ATAPI detected" or something like that. If you see a line like that, you don't need any drivers. The kernel can work with the CD-ROM on its own.
HTH! Jeff >Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:22:05 -0500 (EST) >From: "Sunil N. Goda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Installing Debian??? > > I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC. >I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with. > 1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers >for it during the "install drivers phase" of installation, I keep >getting the message installation failed. It seems like the drive is >supported (there are options for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and an Mitsumi >extended drive). I am not sure if it is failing because I am giving it >the wrong command line options (specifying IRQ and IO, which admittedly I >am unsure about) or what. > > 2) I have an SMC 1211TX network card, and I am trying to use the >rtl8139 driver for it, but I keep receiving an installation failed message >as well. I know that someone else has successfully used this driver with >this card, but he was not using Debian. To get it to work, he ended up >hacking the drivers a little and compiling it into the kernel. My >question is: after only the base install, is it possible to compile the >kernel? My original plan was to configure my network card, and then >download packages through ftp, but I may need to compile code before I can >configure my network card. > > 3) During the base install, I keep getting a message that says "There >was a problem extracting the base system from /target/base2_0.tgz" after I >have entered all 5 floppy disks with the base system on them (without >receiving any disk errors). I used rawrite2 under a DOS shell in win95 to >write to the disks (I no longer have Win95 on my computer), so what could >the problem be? > > Thank You, > Sunil > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com