Re: [SuSE Linux] Soundblaster CD-ROM drive help
Katt Freyson wrote:
In article <<A HREF="msg01288.html">35E99410.323B983C@gte.net</A>>, you wrote:
SuSE 5.2 comes with a boot disk or at least the boxed version I bought had a boot disk included with it. I have a similarly configured 486DX33 machine with that propritary SoundBlaster IDE CDROM drive but I haven't tried to install SuSE on it yet. Linux supports that CDROM drive as I do have Slackware 3.3 installed on that system currently.
Tony, Any help you can give me on making a boot disk with the right kernel? I've been trying to read the damn manual...The boot disk that comes with SuSE does not seem to help.
Katt
I've only installed SuSE 5.2 twice, once on a system with a IDE-ATAPI CDROM and the other had a SCSI one. 1) From what I recall when I did the SCSI install, I had to select a SCSI driver to get the CDROM to work. YaST presented me a list of drivers. With this in mind, are you able to get your system booted up and get YaST running? 2) If YaST is indeed running, does it ask you what type of CDROM you have? The proprietary Creative Lab CDROM drive is a Matsushita/Panasonic CDROM drive and there is a driver specifically for it. It looks like SuSE supports it as I see a reference to this CDROM drive on the bottom of page 194 in the SuSE 5.2 manual. That section of the manual deals with all of the configuration settings for a Linux kernel. Obviously that section isn't any help until you have a working Linux system installed and you want to configure and compile your own kernel. This leads me to believe that SuSE must support this CDROM and it's just a matter of getting YaST to load the appropriate CDROM driver I think. 3) I went back to the original set of kernel driver modules from my original SuSE 5.2 install. This has a kernel version of 2.0.33 and it does include the Sound Blaster CDROM driver. The name of the driver module is "sbpcd.o" 4) I did run YaST and I went into the menu option where I selected a CDROM drive. I looked at the list of CDROMs that are available and the "Sound Blaster Pro", "sbpcd", is listed in the list of CDROM drives. I believe that's the driver you want. I hope I've been of some help, Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
In article <<A HREF="msg01306.html">35EA2CBA.90AE4068@gte.net</A>>, Anthony Schlemmer <Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net> wrote:
1) From what I recall when I did the SCSI install, I had to select a SCSI driver to get the CDROM to work. YaST presented me a list of drivers. With this in mind, are you able to get your system booted up and get YaST running?
I've only gotten YaST running under Win98. Never tried it using SCSI drivers. Guess I could try that.
3) I went back to the original set of kernel driver modules from my original SuSE 5.2 install. This has a kernel version of 2.0.33 and it does include the Sound Blaster CDROM driver. The name of the driver module is "sbpcd.o"
Fine, but how do I get it running? When I say I want to add a module, it lists me some, then forces a config. How can I tell it to use the right module? -- Katt Freyson Montreal, Canada A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
I don't understand what you mean about running YaST under Win98? Does that mean you're using "loadlin" to start Linux? I have no experience with "loadlin" as I've always used a bootdisk. If you can get YaST running all you need to do is select an install medium. Since you're trying to install from the CDROM, you select the CDROM as the installation medium. Once you select CDROM, YaST will ask you what CDROM drive do you use? If you look at the list YaST presents, you'll see an entry that says "Sound Blaster Pro (Panasonic)". As far as I know this is the drive type you have based upon your earlier email messages. If I had my old 486 system available I'd give SuSE a quick install run but I recently relocated and the box is buried in the garage at this time. Katt Freyson wrote:
In article <<A HREF="msg01306.html">35EA2CBA.90AE4068@gte.net</A>>, Anthony Schlemmer <Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net> wrote:
1) From what I recall when I did the SCSI install, I had to select a SCSI driver to get the CDROM to work. YaST presented me a list of drivers. With this in mind, are you able to get your system booted up and get YaST running?
I've only gotten YaST running under Win98. Never tried it using SCSI drivers. Guess I could try that.
3) I went back to the original set of kernel driver modules from my original SuSE 5.2 install. This has a kernel version of 2.0.33 and it does include the Sound Blaster CDROM driver. The name of the driver module is "sbpcd.o"
Fine, but how do I get it running? When I say I want to add a module, it lists me some, then forces a config. How can I tell it to use the right module?
-- Katt Freyson Montreal, Canada
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
I use lilo, but I used to have to use loadlin when I first started using linux (because I hadn't figured out isapnp yet ;) ). Loadlin is pretty slick, you just stick it on a dos partition that's visible to linux along with a copy of your vmlinuz and enter "loadlin vmlinuz" from a dos prompt (real dos, not real mode) and bam! you're booting linux. Something kind of attractive about overwhelming your functioning msdos in that manner. I still keep loadlin.exe and a copy of my kernel handy because it's faster than using a rescue disk if something happens to the mbr. Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
I don't understand what you mean about running YaST under Win98? Does that mean you're using "loadlin" to start Linux? I have no experience with "loadlin" as I've always used a bootdisk.
-- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
participants (3)
-
Anthony.Schlemmer＠gte.net -
Katt＠dsuper.net -
satan3＠home.com