Re: CD-ROM drive to install Linux

["John J. Donohue" <jdonohue mcallen lib tx us>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, James Austin wrote:

> Well... I've tried setting the pin on the back of the drive as master,
> and as slave and connected it to the same ribbon cable as the hard
> drive.  Tried it on both positions on the ribbon cable, connected
> directly to the controller card.
> I booted from a Redhat Linux floppy and during the process it will ask
> for the media I'm loading Linux from.  My response is local CD-ROM.  It
> will attempt to find it and then come up with a list of CD-ROM drives. 
> Neither of mine are on it.
> 
Try
1) (if you haven't already done this) selecting one of the generic IDE cd
drives from the list (mitsumi, or ...) and see if that works. ATAPI IDE
drives are mostly the same
2) instead of booting from the redhat disks, boot from a DOS floppy with the
CDROM drivers installed in the boot floppy's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and
then change to the cd drive (d: - most likely), change directory into
dosutils (cd \dosutils) and run the install batch file (autoboot.bat)