On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 07:51:31AM -0700, "JP" == Jason Painter wrote:
JP> Brian, I am not sure if you remember me, I am newbie, came to your last
JP> meeting and such. Anyways, I have got this question for you.
Hmm, I am not very good at names, especially at a meeting that I am
hoping will flow smoothly
JP> I have a Pentium 233 with a Future Domain SCSI controller that has 2 old
JP> Conner 540MB hard drives. Trying Red Hat 6.0. I insert the boot disk,
JP> everything comes up, but I can't access the CD-ROM. I get "No Medium
JP> Found". It worked once before, I got to Disk Druid and did my partitions
JP> but 65% of the way through in the installation, it crapped out (looked
JP> like a Windows stack overflow type message). Tried to install again,
JP> but I can't get the CD-ROM to work.
Did you have a CD rom in the drive? I don't know how well Red Hat
works with the Future Domain SCSI controller. I do know for a fact
that Linux supports Future Domain, I just don't know if on Red Hat's
startup diskettes, if they have compiled that kernel with Future Domain
support. You might want to try Slackware, and once you get your feet
wet, go back to RedHat. RedHat, is easy to configure until you break
out of the box. I would guess you are out of the box. In addition, the
first drive should show as sda, and the second, sdb. I don't know how
Red Hat will handle that. If it recognizes the controller, it ought to
be able to recognize the CD Rom. you have to have a CD Rom in the drive
though. You mount the media, not the drive.
JP> Anyways, I am going to upgrade the BIOS to the most recent version. How
JP> big of an impact will the BIOS be on the Linux install?
If you can see the drives on the SCSI bus, then you ought to see the CDRom
on the SCSI bus. This is assuming you are using a SCSI CDROM. If you are using
an IDE CDROM, I suggest buying a SCSI one. They are about $80. It's worth
it though because you need to eliminate as many variables as you can and
having SCSI and IDE and not knowing exactly what you are doing can be a real
challenge.
JP> Do you have any other suggestions?
Keep plugging. Subscribe to lug-nuts. See http://www.brie.com/linux/
We have a september Installfest planned too.
JP> Thanks for the help.
You're welcome
JP> P.S. When is the next meeting?
See the web site.
brian
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
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