Re: Red Hat 4.2 Install Question

[George Eleftheriou <gele egnatia ee auth gr>]

Preston McMurry wrote:
> 
> I never was able to get it to recognize my CD drive (nor was I able
> to get DOS to recognize the drive. Maybe the drive is bad? Who knows,
> they aren't all that expensive anyway. So I'll get a new one and see
> if that works. My question to the list is this:
> 
> "What CD drive is the *least* likely to have RedHat 4.2 compatibility
> problems?"
> 
> (My reading of the HOWTO says it would probably be an ATAPI drive?)
> 
> I'm tired of screwing with the drive. I want to plop one in and have
> it be recognized so I can get down to the business of screwing with
> Linux itself. ;-)
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Preston
Hi,
All atapi drives should work with linux.
Some other user had a similar problem long time ago.
When you get to linux prompt write hdc=cd-rom
This of-course if your cd-rom is the third disk.
Hope this works,
G.E.