On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: > during the boot up messages when you run the install disk, do you see > references to the cdrom drive being found? No, but I think this is because the cdrom is attached to a sound card. I tried something simailr with on old 486 and worked. cdrom.img managed to get the cdrom as sbpc. Any ideas? Thanks Ed i just installed red hat 6.0 > on a very old vlb 486 on account of mandrake being i586 optimised and i > had loads of difficulty, after messing with changing master/slave > options for the drive and using a different ide interface i eventually > got a reference to 'hdd atapi 8x cdrom found' in the messages scolling > on the screen at boot up, prior to this i had the problem with not being > able to find an appropriate module and i noticed at that time that only > the hard disk was being 'found' at boot up > > bascule > > mendes wrote: > > > > Hello > > I am trying to install Mandrake-7.02 (486 iso) on a 486 PC/33 with > > 20MB and 2 HDs: 210 MB and 1.08 GB. It has a CD (Creative 1220 E) attached to a > > Sound Blaster Card 16. I created a boot disk using a cdrom.img. I tried all the > > modules for cdrom available (sbpc etc.) and got nothing. The cd is working > > pretty fine on Windows. I run out of ideas. Can you help me? > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > Eduardo
