On Saturday 23 March 2002 12:17 pm, Wally wrote: > 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
Wally There's a good article about installing MD8.1 on a vaio 505fx here:- http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/fx505/vaiofx505.html Hope this helps with your problem Regards Pete
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