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Does anyone have a well behaved mscdex that will work with the quad speed drive
or does a later version of the plug-and-play handle the quad speed drive ??

Or is there another solution ?

I  was hoping that the cdrom could make the install disks, I could dump these
onto
my dos partition and install from there but I don't think this is possible.

The vendor said I could try it but he said it might not work and that I could
exchange
plug and play for a later version, is this what I have to do and which
plug-and-play
version should I get ???

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Quote:> I have the Yggdrasil plug an play linux November 1994 cd-rom and a quad speed
> creative drive
> 1. the boot disk can't find the cdrom drive
> 2. It says that if the mscdex program is well behaved then you should be able
> to use "runlinux" but the machine just  reboots

D:\> runlinux
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7=4022

<screen goes black and voila, proof that you can get a cdrom to reboot
your system for only $49.95 + 7% GST>

- Marc

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Quote:>I have the Yggdrasil plug an play linux November 1994 cd-rom and a quad speed
>creative drive
>1. the boot disk can't find the cdrom drive
>2. It says that if the mscdex program is well behaved then you should be able
>to use "runlinux" but the machine just  reboots

>Does anyone have a well behaved mscdex that will work with the quad speed drive
>or does a later version of the plug-and-play handle the quad speed drive ??

Derek Rodger

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Crusin' around in my modemmobile...

Quote:> I have the Yggdrasil plug an play linux November 1994 cd-rom and a quad speed
> creative drive
> 1. the boot disk can't find the cdrom drive
> 2. It says that if the mscdex program is well behaved then you should be able
> to use "runlinux" but the machine just  reboots

> Does anyone have a well behaved mscdex that will work with the quad speed drive
> or does a later version of the plug-and-play handle the quad speed drive ??

> Or is there another solution ?

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runlinux didn't work for me either. Tried all kinds of boot configurations in
config.sys and autoexec.bat. It either hung the system or rebooted.

I am tring to reconfigure the kernel and remove all of the extraneous stuff I
do not need. I can;t seem to find how to compile it and build a new bootable
kernel. I cd'ed to /usr/lib/linux and did a make config, then make dep and
make clean. I then did a make zImage. zImage died with an error 2 and I never
did find a kernel if it built one. I also checked /etc/lilo.cfg ( I think that
is the name) for correct pathnames. Any ideas??

Quote:>runlinux didn't work for me either. Tried all kinds of boot configurations in
>config.sys and autoexec.bat. It either hung the system or rebooted.
>I am tring to reconfigure the kernel and remove all of the extraneous stuff I
>do not need. I can;t seem to find how to compile it and build a new bootable
>kernel. I cd'ed to /usr/lib/linux and did a make config, then make dep and
>make clean. I then did a make zImage. zImage died with an error 2 and I never
>did find a kernel if it built one. I also checked /etc/lilo.cfg ( I think that
>is the name) for correct pathnames. Any ideas??

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Help?

: Help?

ok, you need to install the development disks. (the compiler's and
libraries and such)

what the how-to was telling you, was that you need to install the kernel
source, and configure your own custom-made-for-your-machine kernel.

once, the development disks have been installed (just need gcc263, include,
libc, gmake, binutils, lx???_1, lx???_2, lx???_3 (ie *all* the kernel source
from one
kernel number, not a good thing to install more than one set of kernel
source, you never know what u might end up with)

then goto /usr/src/linux

make config
  this is the part where you will be prompted for what kernel options you
want. its *relatively* straight foreward, just remember to say yes to the
math emulation if u dont have a math co-processor (ok to say yes if you
have one anyway, the kernel will use the real one if its there, even if
emulation support is in the kernel.)
  also say yes to "System V IPC" cuz some programs need it (ie linux
doom!)

if you make a typo here and know it, you can always just "make config" again.

say yes to SCSI support, (you'll have to know what # your adaptec card is
cuz it will prompt you for it), yes to sound support, (not sure bout nec
cdrom support tho)

make dep (makes the include dependancies, takes 10-15 minutes on my box)

make zImage (compiles your kernel, takes 1.45 hours on my 386 8meg ram
system)

now, if you're using lilo, you should "make zlilo" instead of "make zImage"

if you're using a boot disk, find the zImage file (thats your kernel),
its in /usr/src/arch/i386/boot/zImage on recent kernels, and put your soon
to be boot floppy in drive a: and do a

cp zImage /dev/fd0        

if all is confusing you, get the Kernel-HOW-TO, it should be in the
pub/linux/docs/HOW-TO directory of sunsite or a sunsite mirror

Mark Duguid      Certified Linux Geek        Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

"To turn any 486/586 into a 8088,..just add Dos and let freeze over Windows.
"MS-Windows and Win95 are the only viruses with a GUI." nuf bashin for today