On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> I was given a Packard Bell 486/33MHZ box recently. I have been trying to
> load Red Hat 5.2 onto it so I can (hopefully) set up a home LAN. I can't get
> past the CD-ROM part. There is a Matsushita CD-ROM in the box and that is
> not listed as a choice for the install. What is driving me crazy is that the
> box is using the CD-ROM for the initial part of the install, so I know it
> works. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
I'm guessing it's a non-atapi CDROM. Probably connected to
the sound card. My suggestion would be to pull that and get
an IDE card with a separate BIOS on it which will enable
you to use an IDE CDROM. Alternatively, you can get an
inexpensive SCSI card and a SCSI CDROM.
John
