I usually just go with a anon ftp install when I can't get things to go
with the floppy cdrom combo. I have an old Packard-Bell with a Panasonic
2x cdrom, and a non-ide controller that I usually have to ftp install to
get things working.
JDF
>Bruce McCulley wrote
>
> This may be a stupid question, but off the top of my head I'm coming up
> blank so far...
>
> Here's my problem. I've got an *old* box I want to load with a new
> Mandrake 7.2 distro, but I'm having no luck getting into it. The distro
> CDROM is bootable but the h/w bios won't boot the CDROM drive. So I've
> tried boot floppies, and Mandrake's distro appears to be slightly
> brain-damaged in critical areas that prevent success. The standard
> default cdrom boot floppy image finds the Adaptec SCSI controller okay,
> but then tells me it can't mount the cdrom on the drive. A variant
> ("other") boot floppy image that offers a different driver set tells me
> that it can't even find the Adaptec controller (apparently using the
> same script)! Thing is, when I boot into a working system on the other
> drive it mounts the cdrom just fine, which is why I claim Mandrake's
> distro is brain-damaged.
>
> Here's what I want to do: I want to be able to boot the distro from the
> cdrom media, using the other drive, just like I would be able to do
> using "loadlin" if I had DOS on the system. So far I can't think of
> anything, short of hacking around with lilo.conf - am I missing
> something obvious? Heck, all I want is a simple boot loader that would
> do just what a bios boot would do... is that too much to ask?
>
> THANKS!
>
> --Bruce McCulley
>
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