All,

I am new to Linux world. I am trying to install Linux 9 on my Pentium Pro PC. The installation process can not find my SCSI CD-ROM drive. What should I do now? It is asking for driver if I have one.

I would appreciate your help.

Thanks,
hetzme

1. Which distro are you installing? (There are many "Linux 9"s ... for eg. Red Hat Linux 9, SuSE Linux 9, Slackware Linux 9 and so on. This makes a difference.)

2. You have set your BIOS to boot from this CDROM? Is it your BIOS that is saying it cannot find your CDROM or the installation program? (If the installer, then how did it boot if it cannpt find the CD drive?)

3. Tell me the exact error message.

SCSI CDR is very unusual in a desktop. Are you sure this isn't and IDE CDROM (i.e. a normal one).

I have been assuming you are installing from a CD in the SCSI CD drive - however, you could mean you have 2 CD drives: an IDE one and an SCSI one. And the SCSI one is not detected(?) In which case, you can safely skip that part of the installation process and add the scsi drive later.

The installer first boots your machine into a special install kernel. This has access to the minimum drivers to install linux on your computer (fingers crossed). Then you go through a detection and pre-install setup process you are familiar with by now. Then it will compile a more complete kernel and all the drivers indicated by your setup. Anyhing missed can be configured post-install.

I am trying to install Red Hat 9. I prepared a bootable floppy diskkette. Installing from the floppy.

CD-ROM details as displayed during the startup:
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SCSI ID: LUN NUMBER #:# 5:0 - NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:462


Installation:
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Inseted the bootable diskette in the flopply drive.
Restarted the computer
Redhat window showed up.

1. Choose a language: English
2. what type of keyboard you have: US
3. What type of media contains the packages to be installed?
Local CDROM
Hard drive
NFS image
FTP
HTTP

I selected Local CDROM

It then said: No driver found.
Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk?
Select driver
Use a driver disk

selected select driver

4. Please select the driver below which you wish to load. If it does not appear and you have a driver disk, press F2.

USB Mass storage driver for Linux (usb-storage)

[] specify optional arguments

OK
Back



I am stuck here. What should I do now.

Thanks for your help.

What is the make / model of the SCSI controller?

I dont know the make / model of the SCSI controller. How can I find it out?

Usually when the PC boots the SCSI controller BIOS will be displayed which will display the model number. If you have windows running then you can look at the hardware manager for the information. The last resort would be to open the case and look at the card itself.

Adaptec AHA-294X/AHA-394 or AIC-78XX PCI SCSI Controller

NEC CD-ROM Drive:462

On the first CD you will find a driver image. You can create a floppy disk using winrawrite.exe on windows PC or dd with a linux OS. insert the driver disk and press f2 when prompted. Load the aic7xxx module and hopefully you should be good to go.

michaelk,

thanks a lot. It worked.

-hetzme.