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In article <4kcip6$47a@altus.speednet.com.au>, deezee@speednet.com.au says...
>
>Due to my new enviroment (within Linux - after dealing with MS-DOS for
>so long) I've had some initial difficulties and would like "IF
>POSSIBLE " some assistance on understanding what it is I've actually
>done. (My computer has the following features: 540MB IDE HD, 16MB RAM,
>2MB Trident video card, Creative SB32 Sound card + 8 speed CD-ROM
>running on a Pentium 100 PCI motherboard)
>
>1) Firstly using INFOMAGIC  5 CD Developers Kit I made my BOOT/ROOT
>disks with one problem, my CD wasnt being detected.

<snip>

Check that you selected the right boot images for your system, i.e. that the image recognizes 
SB+CD combos.

(I changed the
>jumper on the CDROM to Master but still no luck - the CDROM is
>connected to the sound card) So then I resorted to instalation via HD
>to install A, AP, D, N, X, XAP.This all seemed to go fairly well and
>after choosing the majority of applications within the various series
>of disks I had loaded everything.During instalation I was asked if I
>wanted to add DOS/OS2 partitions to be viewed within LINUX - and I
>chose to add them to /etc/fstab. Then I was asked if I wanted to add
>other DOS/OS2 partitions (I assumed I had already done this so I just
>used q = to quit) DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG BY DOING THIS ?

No.

>2) I've installed LILO and everythings seems to be going fairly well.
>On boot up I get an option (after pressing CTRL or ALT) which asks me
>what OS I want to use - DOS or LINUX. Whilst it is booting there are
>several lines of info that come up prior to arriving at the prompt. I
>have noted these few lines thinking that there may be problems with
>initial set up. Could someone please explain what they mean and if I
>must change certain parameters ?
>
>CHECKING 386/387 COUPLING....OK, FPU USING EXCEPTION 16 ERROR
>REPORTING 
>
>PARTITION CHECK HDA: MULTIPLE MODE TURNED OFF
>                                 HDA: HDA1, HDA2, HDA3
>
>CHECKING FOR CD....UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT
>END_REQUEST: I/O ERROR, DEV 2100, SECTOR 64
>ISOFS_READ_SUPER:BREAD FAILED, DEV 0x2100
>UNABLE TO IDENTIFY CDROM FORMAT
>
>STARTING PCMCIA SERVICES: INITIALISATION OF i82365 FAILED CARDMGR
>

This looks a bit fishy. Unfortunately I can't help you here. I think there's a PCMCIA HOWTO, but 
do you need one of these?

>Lastly could someone be kind enough as to answer a silly question like
>what is the command under LINUX which acts as TREE for MSDOS ?
>
>Much obligied for any assistance.
>
>

Pete
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