On Tuesday 13 March 2001 10:39, you wrote:
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet.
have a look at the boot / kernel messages. Some ZIP drives come as IDE floppy and are accessed as /dev/hd[a,b,c,d] (like a CDROM).
I specifically purchased a parallel drive Zip250 and have a second lpt just to handle it. I think, from the list of modules available, all I'll have to do is adust modules.conf to reflect two lpt cards and then use parport, etc., the way I do on my wifes machine. JLK
Juergen
Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK