ivan wrote:
Hello,
This is further to my post last titled THIRD TIME - please help. I am
sorry but I haven't got a copy because I had to format my Win95 partition
and re-install.
Hey I know the feeling.
No doubt you are all bored of this but I have tried all of the suggestions
given and still can't get Hamm to install from CD.
The problem as described previously is an IRQ timeout error (0xd0) which
occurs repeatedly when installing Hamm from CD.
Here are a few possibilities:
-Your CD-ROM is not set to slave if it is sharing a IDE channel with a
HDD.
-Your CD-ROM spins down and cannot spin-up fastenough to send data
(causing a time-out)
What would be nice to know:
-what IDE channel is the CD-ROM on?
-does the CD-ROM share a channel with a hard disk?
-is the IDE channel on a soundcard?
What you could try:
-have someone else try to install from the CD (maybe it's bad?)
-put the CD-ROM on a separate IDE channel if it currently is sharing
one, or vice versa.
-report back with more error messages if problems persist
-install from FTP (I know it's slow, I have a 14.4Kbps modem and it
took me a week to install Debian from FTP because of my ISP
restrictions)
I see from the archives that several other people have discussed this but I
didn't see a solution proposed. Any ideas now ???
Tell me where these archives are and maybe I'll find something in them
(I haven't looked lately)
The disk is fine - Win95 reads it without a problem and with only the Hamm
base system installed I was able to copy from it to a directory in my Linux
partition until I ran out of room ( how did a 650Mb CD use up a 1.5Gb
partition BTW ? )
All .deb files are compressed and normally expand to about twice their
size.
During the installation I can hear the drive constantly speed up then slow
down then speed up etc... when dselect is operating and then finally it
grinds to a halt and errors occur.
Is anything installed or is it seeking continually seeking.
I have a P166mmx with a 2.5Gb h/d, 32Mb memory, 1.44Mb floppy and 24X speed
ATAPI CD-ROM. The name of the CD-ROM is Diamond Data which I believe is
manufactured by Mitsubishi.
I have previously installed Hamm on the system by FTP which ran perfectly
and even played music CD's but please don't tell me to reinstall by FTP as
this takes me about two days to download because of work commitments and
ISP time restrictions.
The CD-ROM is supposed to be the official distribution which I purchased
from DVD Rent in Victoria, Australia.
If you need more info to help please ask.
TIA
Ivan.
Mark Panzer
