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

[Boris Kortiak <bpkprsnl erols com>]

I wish I could go out and buy additional hardware, but it just isn't
possible.  Finding someone that knows what will fit into this Acer is
difficult.

That was the purpose of trying to install Linux, was to see if we could give
this old PC a new lease on life.

No, the BIOS will not allow booting from the CD-ROM.

Yes, it is one of those proprietary CD-ROM plugged into the sound card deals.
I'm pretty sure that I saw a hack for the driver in RH, which is one of the
reasons I selected RH to try.

Anyway, thanks for the thoughts.

Jeff Lane wrote:

> 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
>
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