Want to install Mandrake 8.1 on a Sony Vaio 505FX, but having trouble with
the MD installer seeing the CD-ROM drive...
The laptop's CD drive connects via a PCMCIA card. Although the Mandrake CD
boots okay, the install then fails to see the disk. Did some web-troffing
and found that folks installing earlier versions Mandrake and RedHat told
the installer something like...
ide1=0x180,0x386
In the MD8.1 install, there's a text-mode dialog box where one can add
parameters, but it's not clear which driver I should use (cdrom.o?
ide-cd.o?). I'm not sure if the particular parms I'm using apply to this
machine. Have also tried...
ide1=0x180,0x360
ide2=0x180,0x386
ide2=0x180,0x360
on both drivers, but no joy. Does anyone know which driver I should select,
and which parms (if any) I should supply?
Wally
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