Re: potato_install
--- John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com> wrote:
> Antonio Alberto Lobato wrote:
> Detail: my CDROM reader is very
> > old. It`s a Creative SB 2x (Panassonic).
>
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> When the rescue disk is loading, does the boot
> kernel find the cdrom? It
> should show up if the bios is finding it. If so
> then you should be able
> to mount the cdrom as /dev/hdc for this purpose
> (providing you only have
> 1 hard disk).
the old soundblaster cd roms were proprietary and
ran off the sound card's controller. Because of
this, it doesn't show up in the bios.
see the CD ROM HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html
and see the section 3.3 Proprietary CD-ROM
Drives.
the soundblaster should use the spbcd kernel
driver.
I believe the lilo boot parameter
sbpcd=<io-address>,<interface-type>
should work. see section 4.3 Creating Device
Files and Setting Boot Time Parameters in the CD
ROM HOWTO.
hope this helps...
xucaen
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