Re: Creative Labs CD ROM

[mcamacho habitat co cr (Manuel Camacho)]

Got one of those. I *guess* you have the CD unit connected to the sound card.
In such a case, your bios will not recognize it as a booting unit. Can do two
things:

1.) Change the cd unit to a direct IDE port in your motherboard. If your bios
support booting from the CD, this may work.

2.) Leave the CD were it is connected (soundcard or wherever). Boot from a
Win98 startup diskette, and use the CD support option in the start menu. It
will boot in w98 dos mode, and you can change directory to the cd /dosutils,
and run the autoboot batch file.

Hope this helps.

-Manuel.

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Luis Perez wrote:
> I am trying to install Linux 6.0 in a P75 box.
> The only CD Rom I had around was an old Creative Labs, I was able to
> configur it under DOS and it works fine.
> It uses one of these Creative Cards and software.
> When I try to install Linux, i tell the installation program to do it from
> CD, then I select Soundblaster/panasonic, it can't find the CD,
> 
> can anybody help ??