This is a re-send to 'scientific-linux-users' since the original, directly
to Connie Sieh, seems to be MIA.
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:34:24 -0700
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Subject: Re: can't install SL 4.2 - no CD-ROM driver
Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>
>> Connie, as an addendum to my earlier response to you with the output of
>> 'lspci', I thought this observation may somehow be relevant: on CD#1
>> there is a file named '.discinfo' that reads
>> ____________
>>
>> 1132703343.022552
>> LTS
>> i386
>> 1
>> SL/base
>> SL/RPMS
>> SL/pixmaps
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> But in fact on CD#1 the only subdirectories in directory SL are
>>
>> SL/base
>> SL/build
>> SL/RPMS
>
> That is correct.
>
>> Does this apparent inconsistency point to some deeper problems? On the
>> other hand, the '.discinfo' file on CD#2 is identical except that the
>> fourth line reads '2' instead of '1', and the SL directory has the same
>> subdirs as does CD#1. So maybe I'm misinterpreting the '.discinfo' file.
>
> That is fine too. The 1 and 2 are the cd numbers. The other info tells
> the install where to find the files needed during the install.
Okay, but out of curiosity, where does the install program find the files
that it expects to find in the 'SL/pixmaps' subdirectory, which doesn't
exist?
Be that as it may, I'll assume the install program knows what it's doing.
But I don't. I tried installing using other options than the graphical
install, such as 'linux text', 'linux rescue' and 'linux noprobe', and
every time I am led down the identical path, leading to 'can't find CD
device driver'. So far I haven't found any way to get past that obstacle.
Does the output of lspci that I'd sent earlier help in giving suggestions
to what I should try next? Here's the earlier message:
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>> I've just gotten the four CD disks from LinuxOrg with Scientific Linux
>> 4.2, and tried to install it on my computer's 2nd hard disk. That disk
>> (5.1 GB) now has a working (sort of...) RedHat 7.2 on it, which I'd
>> like to replace with the SL. The first HD, 20 GB, runs eCS 1.2, the
>> latest version of OS/2.
>>
>> When I boot with CD#1 in the drive -- a Plextor SCSI unit using an
>> InitIO INI-9100UW SCSI adapter -- and choose the graphic install, a msg
>> tells me it can't find a device driver for the system (I assume it's
>> referering to the CD drive). No InitIO adapter is included in the
>> supplied list.
>
> The kernel for 4.2 should support the following(these are lspci) numbers.
>
> 1101 Initio Corporation
> 1060 INI-A100U2W
> 9100 INI-9100/9100W
> 9400 INI-940
> 9401 INI-950
> 9500 360P
> 9502 Initio INI-9100UW Ultra Wide SCSI Controller INIC-950P chip
>
> Please send the output from lspic.
>
>-Connie Sieh
Connie, thank you for this info. Here's what I get from lspci with the -v
option:
-- begin lspci output --
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
(rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge
(rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: d4000000-d7ffffff
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
(prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
(prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at c000 [size=32]
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
(rev 30)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at c400 [size=128]
Memory at d9000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9292:0202
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
Memory at d9001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]
[Note: the '-vv' option to lspci adds the following here]
-------------------------------------------------
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32, cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at d9001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]
-------------------------------------------------
00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 120, IRQ 11
I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
I/O ports at d000 [size=4]
I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
00:13.1 Unknown mass storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
HPT366/370 UltraDMA 66/100 IDE Controller (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 120, IRQ 11
I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
I/O ports at dc00 [size=4]
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
01:00.0 Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Elsa AG: Unknown device 0a35
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
Memory at d6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Memory at d5800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
Memory at d5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 1
Capabilities: [40] AGP version 1.0
-- end lspci output --
Thanks for looking at this.
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Help would be much appreciated; until someone suggests something useful for
me to try, I'm unable to install. Thanks.
- Dushan Mitrovich
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