On Mon, 31 May 1999, Cullen, Ryan wrote:
>I finally took the big step and bought linux at a computer Faire I attended,
>with the object of learning what I believe is the future OS. Yet, I'm
>totally illiterate when it comes to Linux. I can only base it on the
>knowledge I have on DOS.
>
>The Problem
>My Mercer 486 DX laptop with 20MB ram is my test machine. Attached to the
>PCMCIA slots is 2 CD ROMS. One CD ROM is a TXC compatible double speed CD
>ROM (unknown Name brand) using L2 PCMCIA card, the other (a Vision Media) is
>attached to a Adaptec -460 Slim SCSI.
>I have tried every "driver" to identify and set up ONE of them, yet in vain.
>After some research I found that the Adptec -460 is not supported.
>So, that leaves me with the other CD ROM. The drivers it uses is the TXCD
>driver and another called ARICD. I found that the Aztech "driver" seems to
>support the TXC.
>
>The Question
>What are the commands I can use in the "Specify options" that I might try to
>help me set it up? A default I/O setting was 340 which the Aztech driver
>doesn't seem to "Autoprobe".
You neglect to mention either disk space available, or what
family of devices the CDroms are - ide or scsi. Ide should get working,
once you call it the right thing - scsi is a different story.
Your best options are: get onto a network and install via a
networked CDROM, or maybe copy the essentials from a cdrom to a hd
partition. There are miniature distributions, and UMSDOS systems which
allow you to get a feel for this system.
If you have a scsi (which stands for System Can't See It) cdrom,
you need pcmcia services, a usually a kernel build. You usually
won't have a straightforward install. When you do get it
together, Install the make & patch commands, and all else they tell you
to. Read the PCMCIA-HOWTO and the SCSI-HOWTO. It's not quite as messy
as a sex change, but...
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
