Hi All,
I've recently purchased a new system running windows 98 and was trying to
install Red Hat Linux 6.1 over the weekend. Having some trouble getting
Linux install to recognise my hardware.
Here's what I've got:
- Pentium III 500 system with 128M RAM
- 19G HDD (IBM 372050) running Ultra DMA 66 with ABIT's BE6 motherboard
Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus master IDE controller
Adaptec SCSI driver: HPT 366 Ultra DMA controller (I don't have a
SCSI card, but that's what's loaded in win98 to enable Ultra 66 capability
with Hard drive ... I think)
- CD-R/RW drive (RICOH RW7060A)
- Have Linux Red Hat 6.1 on CD from a friend who downloaded it from the
internet
How far I've got:
- tried boot from CD, but can't ... the CD Rewriter I've got probably don't
support this (I tried booting my windows 98 CD and had no luck)
- so I've created floppy boot disk from the Linux install CD, and booted the
PC off it
- went through some peripherals selections like Keyboard, mouse ...
- when I came to dialog where you specify the type of install => I choose
"Custom install"
- it reported an error and could not proceed (I didn't drop this down, but
it did not point to any devices, it just mentioned "hardware")
- try this again in expert mode ... and got to a prompt to put in driver
disks, and DOS driver disks I've got obviously didn't work
- seems that Linux don't recognise or don't have drivers for my CD-Rewriter
and my hard drive (or the Ultra 66 bit anyway)
My questions are:
Has anybody had success in getting Linux to recognise CD-Rewriters during
install ?
Does Linux support Ultra66 ?
Can anybody suggest a way to make the install work an configure the rest
later ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Looking forward to any responses,
Albert.
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