Thanks a lot, John. My Cds are from"Linux System Labs", www.lsl.com; but I am
really
suspecting that they are not complete.
Reason: There are a bunch of files with 0 bytes, with just the name. Let me
give you
examples: In the binary disk1, in \disks\slink\contrib\binary-i386 there are a
total of
136 bytes!!!!!!!!
This probably explains why I got BUNCHES of symlinks lost in my last
installation, which
has made me try to install it all again.
I have installed this already a few times, more or less succesfully until now
that my
cdrom refuses completely to be read from. I managed to install the base system
by
rwacopying to floppies the seven base files.
Regarding the name of the cdrom, it is probably Matsushita CR-533, Panasonic,
so I am
using sbpcd. And as I said before, it already has worked, but not now.
Interesting fact: I have noticed that if I install it from the basic
installation
process, I get a couple of mistakes, but finally any way it says "Installation
succeded".
Well, if I do it by running modconf after having the base set, it does it
without
mistakes and fast.
But in no case I can use the Cdrom to install the system through dselect. I
mean in the
last few attempts, before that I did it about 4 times.
I am going to follow your recomendations now, and see what happens.
John Carline wrote:
> Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install slink from zero, but I am quite unable to install
> > sucesfully the cdrom module. My cdrom is a Matshita cdrom CR 5633 (got
> > this from the win95 previous installation).
>
> Not familiar with this cdrom, so no help here.
>
> > I had been able to install
> > and read before from the cdrom, by just not entering any command line,
> > after which I got some EOF backquote substitution error, but any way
> > some "Installation succeded" came through. Even with this I can't read
> > any from the Cdrom when making first installation with dselect. Tells me
> > "cdrom not succesfully mounted"
>
> Antonio,
>
> I'm afraid it's not clear exactly what problems you're having.
>
> Is your computer/cdrom capable of booting from the CD?
> If so dselect will mount it after you select the multicd option. It'll mount
> it in
> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt.
>
> If your computer can't boot from the CD, life becomes more difficult.
>
> Since you appear to have a base system running, try to mount your CD using
> '/dev/hdc
> /mnt' in place of '/dev/cdrom /cdrom' (assuming it's the most common cdrom
> mounting -
> primary device on the secondary IDE. If not change accordingly.
>
> Now if you can mount the cdrom, but dselect can't. You can still tell
> dselect to
> install from a mounted file system (the cdrom at /mnt) instead of from a
> cdrom
> ("/mnt/dists/slink/main/binary-i386" for main, and
> "/mnt/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386" for contrib) Assuming you have a
> cheapbytes
> debian 2.1 disk, yours may be different and you may have to search for the
> correct
> directory. I know that this is an ugly way of doing things, but it beats the
> hell out
> of floppies.
>
> If none of this help you, ask this list again with specific problems.
>
> Good Luck
>
> John
>
> >
> > I have tried mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom, but with same
> > result: I get some long list of attempts, but none gets anywhere.
> > Another data of interest: when rebooting, I see CR-563 0x340 flashing.
> > I have no idea what to do. I have been able to install the base system
> > by rawriting2 the base14-x.bin files to floppies (7 of them), but seems
> > a very long work to continue doing this.
> > please help.
> > Thanks,
> > Antonio.
> >
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