Re: CD-ROM drive to install Linux

[James Austin <auji cruzio com>]

John J. Donohue wrote:
> 
> 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)
> 
Yes, I've tried both of these ideas.  Autoboot.bat puts me right back
into the installation process and it still can't find the CD-ROM drive. 
I'll try Mike Dreibelbis' idea on another post of installing from the
HD.  Maybe if I copy the CD's onto the HD and just try it from there. 
Thanks for the help.