I had the same problem with an older BIOS and an early Creative CD-ROM. I
found that if you re-boot with the install diskette eventually the CD-ROM
would be recognized. Sometimes 10-15 attempts were necessary, but it did
work. I also found that once the CD-ROM recognition had failed, trying to
feed it the type/parameters was just a waste of time... best to shut down
and try again.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Gavin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 2:16 PM
Subject: [expert] install - can't find CDROM
> Hi,
> I'm trying to upgrade a box running redhat 6.0 with mandrake 7
>
> <aside>
> I asmume this is possible and it should work fine.
> </aside>
>
> the bios on this old box can't boot from CD so I popped in the boot
> diskette. linux booted then said it couldn't find the CDROM device. (the
> redhat installer had no such trouble) I picked 'other not scsi'. It's an
> 'Aztech' IDE drive so I chose that from the list - got 'device not found'
>
> for the hell of it tried every combination of choices it gave me - no
dice.
> finally it asked for disk drive args. what do I put there?
>
> there doesn't seem to be a way to install/upgrade without the CD. I have
> another machine on the network so I could do an FTP install if possible.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Gavin
