Running with a SoundBlaster CD

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Running with a SoundBlaster CD
started by: tjwood

Posted by tjwood on Sep. 08 2004,17:44

Thanks to the poor mans install I have a working copy of dsl. Now for the problems.

I have a P166 with a soundblaster/Panasonic CDROM drive. How do I get it working?
The old RedHat 5.2 would mount it as sbpcd so I know the drive is functional.

Only the poor mans install will work if I boot from the floppy. If I try to do a hd-install to the next partition I get a kernel panic.

I have to manually install the nic with "sudo 3c509" and "sudo netcardconfig" with an acceptance of the dhcp. Then everything is OK. I can save the settings but booting with the restore option does not configure the card.

The mouse does not work if I use the restore feature. I have to run xsetup and select the serial port cua0 for the mouse to come alive.

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 08 2004,22:19

On the CDROM, my guess is that you will need to modprobe the CDROM driver and maybe even make the SoundBlaster CDROM device file if it is not listed in the current /dev/ directory.

Once you have that figured out and running you should be able to mount it from the command line. You may need to do the mounting as user "root" if the permissions are set so that normal users cannot access the device.

Try a google search on Knoppix sbpcd for possibly more help.

To configure the card automatically, you will need to add your manually typed-in commands to your /opt/bootlocal.sh file. It works similar to an AUTOEXEC.BAT in DOS. Make sure that you are backing this file up. The filename should appear in your filetool.lst backup file list.

Search the forums on backing up your network settings. If you can find your post-install network settings you can probably put them into your bootlocal.sh too. Search the forums for help.

There was a recent discussion about the serial mouse in here. I believe that the answer was to add two commands to your bootlocal.sh:

rm -rf /dev/mouse
ln -sf /dev/cua0 /dev/mouse

Posted by tjwood on Sep. 10 2004,18:09

Thanks cbagger01.
The CDROM is now working and each of the configuration scripts are called in the bootlocal.sh script.
The only thing left to fix is how to pass parameters to the various scripts. Example: Bootlocal.sh calls netcardconfig. It would be nice to pass OK to the question it asks of getting a dhcp setting.
Tom

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 10 2004,21:03

I believe that netcardconfig is just another script like the bootlocal.sh script.

So you could take the important commands from this script (and not take the "OK" prompt command) and paste them into your bootlocal.sh and you will never have to answer that prompt again.

Good Luck.