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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