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I am planning to try the ascsi boot disk, but don't have high hopes for
it.  Does anyone have a way for me to get my Linux installed?  Or should
I just find another version of Linux?  (Don't suggest copying from the
CDROM to HD...there's no room except to install.)

Thank you for all your help.

Vycke'

Victoria Gilliam
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Quote:} OK, here's the deal.  I thought that the instructions for the Sanyo H94A
} CD-ROM would work for me (the sjcd boot disk, etc.), but I discovered
} that the reason my Media Vision kit's Sanyo CDROM is H94S is that it is a
} SCSI.  Under DOS it uses a driver fdcd.sys (Future Domain driver), but
} the scsi boot disk (both the one on my CDROM--from Using Linux, v 1.1.59,
} Slackware v?--and the newest Slackware) do not find the CDROM
} drive...which makes installing troublesome--to say the least.

I'm using the scsi boot disk and adding the following at LILO (note: I
only have one floppy drive) :

ramdisk root=/dev/fd0 tmc8xx=0xca000,11 max_scsi_luns=0

This usually finds my CDROM on boot (irq 5 works as well), _BUT_ I cannot
get the install program to find the drive.   I'm using color.gz for the
root disk.

Anybody able to help?

Thanx,
Vycke'

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: ramdisk root=/dev/fd0 tmc8xx=0xca000,11 max_scsi_luns=0

: This usually finds my CDROM on boot (irq 5 works as well), _BUT_ I cannot
: get the install program to find the drive.   I'm using color.gz for the
: root disk.

Check that the name that the install program is looking for is the
same as the one referenced in the boot messages, here is a SCSI tape
entry:

scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: WANGTEK   Model: 6130-HS           Rev: 4G16
  Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0

The device name is /dev/st0, as mentioned by the last line, yours
should be something like sr0 or scd0.

Now, if the install program still doesn't mount it, try doing this

mount -n -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt

if that DOES work, then use the install program's premounted
directory options and work from there. The -n is so you can
mount without writing to the /etc/mtab, if your root is mounted
read only, it won't work otherwise. If your root (/) is mounted
read/write you can leave it off.

If the boot message mentions a device which doesn't exits (ie
there is no /dev/scd0), then send me some email and I will help
you figure that one out.

eric
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Quote:} Now, if the install program still doesn't mount it, try doing this
} mount -n -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt
} if that DOES work, then use the install program's premounted
} directory options and work from there. The -n is so you can
} mount without writing to the /etc/mtab, if your root is mounted
} read only, it won't work otherwise. If your root (/) is mounted
} read/write you can leave it off.

Thanx anyway,
Vycke'

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