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Re: Toshiba CD works!!!
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Yaroslav Zimakov wrote:
> First of all, I wish to thank you for your help. My problem seems to be
> solved. It was very simple indeed.
> Your remark on my running out of IDE connectors prompted me to open the
> computer and check if there were any spare IDE buses. As a matter of fact,
> there were two of them - the secondary IDE, totally unused, and the primary one,
> with the HD on it. So I placed the CD on the same bus with the HD and
> slave-jumpered it. Then I ran make config, make dep, make clean, zImage and
> zlilo (this last step I used to forget to perform when I was trying to recompile
> the kernel in the previous occasions), and suddenly it worked...
better to have it as master on the second bus, but it should work anyway.
So? what was the secret? where was it connected, the SB?
btw, no need for both zImage and zlilo. zlilo does them both.
> Now I've got one more question. When I want to run the SETUP script and
> to make an installation from the CD, I am informed that the CD should be
> mounted on the /cdrom mount point whereas, to the script's opinion, my CD is
> mounted on /cdrom/link2cd which does not exist. So the question is: how do I
> change the path?
you don't tell it to install from CDROM, but instead to install from a
premounted directory, and that will ask you where that directory is.
(assuming Slackware)
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