Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 6 Installation

[David Fisher <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dear Slug,
> 
> I am installing RH 6 on a Pentium 75. Booting on the boot floppy is not a 
> problem. It identifies the CD ROM Drive (Panasonic/Scoundblast CR) but then 
> it has problems reading the CD ROM. It tries in lots of 3, I think gets to 
> line blah thousand then just does that over and over  and over, layer etc.

I'd say you have an old Panasonic interface cdrom, not an ide one.

Try typing

cdrom=0x230,1

at the boot prompt you get when booting off the install floppy.  Your cdrom should now be recognised.

-- 
David

"Some weeks it looks like Redmond feels entitled to capture not just part of
what we save, but all of it.  That just isn't going to fly with corporate 
America forever.  When your margins are more sensitive to Bill Gates' pricing
whims than they are [to] the price of oil, that's an untenable position for a
large company to be in."      - John Chapman, Sr. Technology Executive, Amoco