Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> writes: > A friend of mine wants to install Debian on his laptop. He recently > ordered the CDs and tried to install it using a CD drive attached to > his parallel port. He tells me that unfortunately linux didn't > recognise the parallel port, or atleast, couldn't access his CD through > it. Any ideas? > > I'm sorry this information is a bit vague at the moment, but I haven't > been able to have a personal look at it yet. My friend is actually a > senior member of the mathematics department of my university and has a > fair degree of influence, so it would be good to have him become a Debian > user. However if he can't get Debian working soon, I suspect he will go > for another distribution. that wont help because *linux* don't support the parallel port scsi CD-ROM 8-( That's my problem too. It's possible to start linux form dos from the CD, but afterwards you can't access the CD-ROM. The SCSI-HOWWO mentioned that there will never be support for parallel port CD-ROMs. I'll go over a parallel ZIP drive which works with linux - or have you a better idea?? My problem is: How can I arrange Debian on a 100 MB floppy to get no dependency errors? Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/
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