Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

[Sourcerer <vagans@icubed.com>]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, John Reid wrote:


<rm>

> Also I may need to add hdc=cdrom as a boot parameter for my cdrom (see
> below) - I can't find anywhere obvious to do this in the install
> script.  I tried adding the cdrom module and feeding it  hdc=cdrom as a
> parameter - received error - this module does not accept command line
> parameters or word to that effect.  

I think that's only for the cdrom common support and not the module for a
specific cdrom in the base install. The parameters would be addr and irq
dev='0x340,11' or whatever, if you needed to pass them. Later you would
make a symbolic link of /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc

<rm>

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