Re: Need help installing RH7.0 on 486 w/ Orchid SW32

[Jeff Lane <jlane redhat com>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Boris Kortiak wrote:
> The cable for the CD-ROM is not an IDE cable.  Different number of pins.

Then what is it plugged into?

Honestly, go and get a cheap generic IDE cdrom drive, and plug it in to 
the IDE chain.  I dont know if your BIOS will support booting from the 
CDROM tho, so you will then have to get to a running machine, and make a 
boot disk if you dont already have one, and boot from teh floppy.

Trust me, if you have one of those nasty proprietary CDROMs that plugs 
into a soundcard, then you are going to have lots of fun anyway later on, 
so it is just better to save yourself the trouble and go ahead and buy an 
IDE ATAPI compliant CDROM.

cheers