> > I had a strange problem installing Dachstein today. The hardware was a Dell > > Dimension XPS. The machine would boot from a Windows CD, but for some reason > > it would not boot from the Dachstein CD I had created, and tested, on > > another Dell. > > I created a boot floppy, but that wouldn't recognise the CD either. > > In the end I used a Dachstein floppy distribution, but I can't figure out > > what was wrong. > > > > The CD booted OK on another Dell workstation and on my laptop - this would > > seem to rule out a duff CD > > A Windows CD booted OK on the offending Dell workstation - this would seem > > to rule out duff hardware. > > DCD assumes that your cd-rom is /dev/hda. That means that it is > configured as Primary Master, or primary on the first ide controller on > your mainboard. It can be configured otherwise; but, it is simpler to > change the system configuration.
As of 1.0.2, this is no longer true, and the startup scripts will use the first CD-Rom found, searching IDE devices first, then SCSI, although to use a SCSI CD-ROM, you need to update the drivers loaded at boot-time (/boot/lib/modules & /boot/etc/modules). If using a version of Dachstein CD prior to 1.0.2, you do need to either make your CD-ROM /dev/hda, or create a pkgpath.cfg file on your config floppy with the proper CD device (see the readme file for details). Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
