Sorry, I think I've misled you. By HDD (in capitals) I was refering to
"Hard Disk Drive" and the problem was installing when my "HDD" was hda
and CDROM was hdc, apparently having a gap can cause problems on some
motherboards and CDROM combinations, however I fixed it by moving the
CDROM to hdb, and also by putting another "HDD" in hdb, thus bridging
the gap. After installing and moving back to the original configuration,
everything is fine once more.
Stephen.
> > I've installed here at work a couple of times and the installation
> never
> > worked when the CD-ROM was secondary master, and HDD is primary
> master,
> > unless I had a second HDD as primary slave. However, after
> installation
> > it works fine in it's original setup?? I read somewhere that it can
> be a
> > problem.
>
> Presant day devices are "plug and pray" Linux needs the jumper
> settings set
> correctly, which are not there on most "plug and prey" devices.
> That could be your problem, of course at the lilo prompt you can tell
> lilo/linux where to locate them.
>
> As i see it HDD cannot be primary master. Would that not be Secondary
> slave..
>
> HDA = primary master
> HDB = " slave
> HDC = Secondary master
> HDD = " slave
>
>
