🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 2 Feb 1996 16:59:11 GMT, Amitava Dutta <ad> wrote:

>I am not able to install linux from
>cd-rom.
>
>The system is
>   486 VLB with AMI (11/92) bios
>   Promise EDIE 2300+ controller
>   Maxtor and Conner IDE disks
>   NEC SCSI-2 cd-rom drive
>   Jazz sound card with integrated
>      rom-less Future Domain 8xx scsi controller. 
> 
>1. With Yggdrasil Fall 94 distribution of linux,
>   I tried, at the boot prompt,
>      linux tmc8xx=0xCA00,11
>   but it complains about
>      NEC IDE - CDROM error
>   and does not even boot.
> 
>2. With Slackware March 95 distribution of linux
>   I tried at the boot prompt
>      ramdisk tmc8xx=0xCA00,11
>   and it allows me to login as root.
>   However, when I try to mount the cd-rom
>   with, for example
>      mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/<cdrom> /mnt
>   it complains that 
>      /dev/<cdrom> is not a block device

The kernel you are using doesn't support  CD-ROM drivies.

>   [ of course the directory entry says it 
>     is a block device ]
>   I have tried with all the cd* device files
>   I could locate.
>   
>3. Exactly the same problem with
>   FreeBSD 2.0.5 installtion attempt.
>   
>What am I missing ?
>
>The default scsi id was 0,
>I tried with 2 and 4 -- same result.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Amitava Dutta ( NCR / AT&T GIS )
>ad@sodium.att.com
>Amitava.Dutta@lincroftNJ.ncr.com
>

You need  a bootdisk that supports SCSI CD-ROMs. On the Slakware
distribution CD, look into the bootdisk.144 (not sure about the name)
directory. I think the bootdisk image is "scsi" but double check with
the README file there.