Re: problem with installation program
I'd encourage both of you to check this out further and communicate any results to the installation/howto maintainers. Questions with NCR53c series SCSI CDROMs have been appearing with some frequency of late. I don't have direct experience, but know that web/usenet searches are pretty thin on results. On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:01PM -0500, Geopoliticus wrote: Steve, I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my book. I do however have SCSI peripherals. What I eventually ended up doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great! I know that is not what you are looking for. Something I ran across however is a jumper on my CD ROM. It is labeled Block. This jumper, if set, told the controller that it was dealing with a UNIX block device. If your CD ROM has a jumper like this try setting it the opposite of what it is currently set at. You may have some success. Good luck. Geo At 09:42 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Steven Burns wrote: Dear Linux users: I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is that I cannot get the installation program to start. It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed: NCR53c406a: no available ports found. See below. So far, I've looked into the problem as follows. 1. I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant. 2. I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org), but haven't found anything relevant there either. 3. I did internet searches with several search engines and the the search text, NCR53c406a: no available ports found. Snap.com returned some webpages relating to boot arguments for scsi peripherals. I looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to my situation. Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi. I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help me clear this hurdle. Sincerely, Steven P.S. See details below. --- The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation program follows. (The failure is repeatable on my system.) 1. Boot the computer from the debian CD. 2. The Welcome screen appears. Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1! ... This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1) Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot! boot: 3. Press Enter. 4. A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop. The following is the list of messages that remains on the screen. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse port. RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size loop: registered device at major 7 PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found The computer I'm using has the following components. CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU MOTHERBOARD: Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA FLOPPY: Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive CD: 48x EIDE CD-ROM HARD DRIVE: Maxtor 15.3 GB 5400 UDMA Hard Drive (Windows 98 is installed on a 7326MB partition. The rest of the disk (7327MB) is free space.) MEMORY: 128 MB SDRAM PC100 MODEM: 3-COM US Robotics 56k V.90 Fax Modem w/ voice speaker phone NETWORK CARD: PCI 32 bit 10/100 Network Card SOUND CARD: Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128 Vibra Sound VIDEO CARD: Matrox G400 32MB SGRAM AGP MONITOR: Sceptre Dragon Eye .27 KEYBOARD: PS2 108 key Windows 98 Keyboard MOUSE: PS2 Mouse SPEAKERS: 120 Watt Stereo Speakers -- End. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with installation program
I have the same problem installing Debian, on a similar system as Steve. Could not resolve the problem and am still waiting for how tos. I am a newbie to this OS and would like to learn more. Please tailor answers that a layperson can understand. Thank you. Allen In a message dated 4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: Subj: Re: problem with installation program Date: 4/25/00 7:14:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time From: kmself@ix.netcom.com To:debian-user@lists.debian.org I'd encourage both of you to check this out further and communicate any results to the installation/howto maintainers. Questions with NCR53c series SCSI CDROMs have been appearing with some frequency of late. I don't have direct experience, but know that web/usenet searches are pretty thin on results. On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 10:34:01PM -0500, Geopoliticus wrote: Steve, I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my book. I do however have SCSI peripherals. What I eventually ended up doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great! I know that is not what you are looking for. Something I ran across however is a jumper on my CD ROM. It is labeled Block. This jumper, if set, told the controller that it was dealing with a UNIX block device. If your CD ROM has a jumper like this try setting it the opposite of what it is currently set at. You may have some success. Good luck. Geo At 09:42 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Steven Burns wrote: Dear Linux users: I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is that I cannot get the installation program to start. It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed: NCR53c406a: no available ports found. See below. So far, I've looked into the problem as follows. 1. I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant. 2. I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org), but haven't found anything relevant there either. 3. I did internet searches with several search engines and the the search text, NCR53c406a: no available ports found. Snap.com returned some webpages relating to boot arguments for scsi peripherals. I looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to my situation. Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi. I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help me clear this hurdle. Sincerely, Steven P.S. See details below. --- The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation program follows. (The failure is repeatable on my system.) 1. Boot the computer from the debian CD. 2. The Welcome screen appears. Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1! ... This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1) Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot! boot: 3. Press Enter. 4. A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop. The following is the list of messages that remains on the screen. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse port. RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size loop: registered device at major 7 PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found The computer I'm using has the following components. CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU MOTHERBOARD: Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA FLOPPY: Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive CD: 48x EIDE CD-ROM HARD DRIVE
problem with installation program
Dear Linux users: I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is that I cannot get the installation program to start. It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed: NCR53c406a: no available ports found. See below. So far, I've looked into the problem as follows. 1. I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant. 2. I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org), but haven't found anything relevant there either. 3. I did internet searches with several search engines and the the search text, NCR53c406a: no available ports found. Snap.com returned some webpages relating to boot arguments for scsi peripherals. I looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to my situation. Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi. I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help me clear this hurdle. Sincerely, Steven P.S. See details below. --- The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation program follows. (The failure is repeatable on my system.) 1. Boot the computer from the debian CD. 2. The Welcome screen appears. Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1! ... This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1) Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot! boot: 3. Press Enter. 4. A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop. The following is the list of messages that remains on the screen. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse port. RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size loop: registered device at major 7 PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found The computer I'm using has the following components. CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU MOTHERBOARD: Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA FLOPPY: Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive CD: 48x EIDE CD-ROM HARD DRIVE: Maxtor 15.3 GB 5400 UDMA Hard Drive (Windows 98 is installed on a 7326MB partition. The rest of the disk (7327MB) is free space.) MEMORY: 128 MB SDRAM PC100 MODEM: 3-COM US Robotics 56k V.90 Fax Modem w/ voice speaker phone NETWORK CARD: PCI 32 bit 10/100 Network Card SOUND CARD: Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128 Vibra Sound VIDEO CARD: Matrox G400 32MB SGRAM AGP MONITOR: Sceptre Dragon Eye .27 KEYBOARD: PS2 108 key Windows 98 Keyboard MOUSE: PS2 Mouse SPEAKERS: 120 Watt Stereo Speakers -- End.
Re: problem with installation program
Steve, I had a similar problem when trying to install the EXACT same CD from my book. I do however have SCSI peripherals. What I eventually ended up doing was downloading Debian off of the net and it is now running great! I know that is not what you are looking for. Something I ran across however is a jumper on my CD ROM. It is labeled Block. This jumper, if set, told the controller that it was dealing with a UNIX block device. If your CD ROM has a jumper like this try setting it the opposite of what it is currently set at. You may have some success. Good luck. Geo At 09:42 PM 4/24/00 -0500, Steven Burns wrote: Dear Linux users: I am attempting to install Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 from the CD that accompanies the book: Learning Debian GNU/Linux (Bill McCarty, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, Sept 99, 1st ed.). The problem I am currently having is that I cannot get the installation program to start. It would seem that the problem relates to the last message displayed: NCR53c406a: no available ports found. See below. So far, I've looked into the problem as follows. 1. I've looked at the Help items accessed by pressing F1 while the below Welcome screen is up, but none of these items seems relevant. 2. I've spent some time looking at the debian website (www.debian.org), but haven't found anything relevant there either. 3. I did internet searches with several search engines and the the search text, NCR53c406a: no available ports found. Snap.com returned some webpages relating to boot arguments for scsi peripherals. I looked at some of these, but didn't find any information applicable to my situation. Furthermore, my computer does NOT contain any scsi components, so it seems strange that the problem should relate to scsi. I would very much appreciate any insights or suggestions that would help me clear this hurdle. Sincerely, Steven P.S. See details below. --- The sequence of events that lead to the failure of the installation program follows. (The failure is repeatable on my system.) 1. Boot the computer from the debian CD. 2. The Welcome screen appears. Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.1! ... This disk uses Linux 2.2.12 (from kernel-image-2.2.12_2.2.12-1) Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot! boot: 3. Press Enter. 4. A series of messages scroll up the screen and then stop. The following is the list of messages that remains on the screen. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: UNIX somain sockeds 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocol: ICMP, UDP, TCP Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse port. RAM Disk Driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 1096 K size loop: registered device at major 7 PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0x007, BIOS settings: hda: DMA, hdb: pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc: DMA, hdb: pio hda: Maxtor 91531U3, ATA Disk drive hdc: ATAPI 48x CDROM, ATAPI CDROM Drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 91531U3, 14655MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 48x CD ROM Drive, 128 kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found The computer I'm using has the following components. CPU: AMD Athlon 600 MHz CPU MOTHERBOARD: Micro-Star AMD Athlon K7-PRO Motherboard w/ UDMA FLOPPY: Mitsumi 1.44 MB Floppy Drive CD: 48x EIDE CD-ROM HARD DRIVE: Maxtor 15.3 GB 5400 UDMA Hard Drive (Windows 98 is installed on a 7326MB partition. The rest of the disk (7327MB) is free space.) MEMORY: 128 MB SDRAM PC100 MODEM: 3-COM US Robotics 56k V.90 Fax Modem w/ voice speaker phone NETWORK CARD: PCI 32 bit 10/100 Network Card SOUND CARD: Creative Lab Sound Blaster PCI 128 Vibra Sound VIDEO CARD: Matrox G400 32MB SGRAM AGP MONITOR: Sceptre Dragon Eye .27 KEYBOARD: PS2 108 key Windows 98 Keyboard MOUSE: PS2 Mouse SPEAKERS: 120 Watt Stereo Speakers -- End. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
