Art Wildman (wildman@mediaone.net)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 01:25:17 -0400
I am interested in this too, and have anxiously been awaiting a reply. Evidently
this list is more concerned about preventing spam. My delete key works just fine
;-) - lets get back to business guys, I've got a day job too.
I'm running RH 5.2 on a Dell LX486 laptop without a cdrom. I was able to install
5.2 thanks to the 5.2 image install disk Grant Guenther provided with paride
support and an external 32xBackpack I bought just for this purpose. I'm able to
mount the 6.0 install disks under 5.2 and paride with...
#!/bin/bash
# bpck_pcd - installs paride kmodules and cdrom driver 8/99 AW
insmod paride
# install parport kernel modules
# paride: version 1.02 installed
insmod bpck
# install protocol
# paride: bpck registered as protocol 0
insmod pcd
# install ATAPI CDROM driver
# pcd: pcd version 1.05s, major 46, nice 0
# pcd0: bpck 1.02, backpack 18053069 unit 69 at 0x378, mode 1 (8-bit), delay 4
# pcd0: Master: CD-532E-B
#
# mpcd -mounts parport ide cdrom
mount /dev/pcd0 -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
ls -l /mnt/cdrom
exit 1
... this script works nicely, I can browse the RH6.0 CD all day, but without a
boot disk I'm stuck with 5.2. Unless someone knows how to envoke the install
routine directly from the cd?
What's involved in creating a RH6.0 install image disk with paride support? I'm
no programmer, but I'd like to help anyway I can.
-- Art Wildman - wildman@mediaone.net "Share what you know. Learn what you dont." - dejanews.com motto Brun Nazzareno wrote: > > Hi is there anyone who can help me? > I would like to install RH 6.0 from Backpack cdrom on the parallel port; i > tried with the image of 5.2 but it doesn't work!!!;-( > > Help me please > > NENo-- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net -- -- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. --
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