"Douglas H. Ort" wrote:
>
> I understand that with Debian (maybe with all distros) the primary HD and
> the CD-ROM must be on the same IDE controller channel, meaning the primary.
> If the distribution "finds" the CD-ROM and the HD you intend to install
> Linux on is on the other channel, it won't automatically look on that other
> channel. The reverse may also be true: With the distribution on a HD on
> the primary channel and the CD-ROM on the secondary.
I've both Debian and Slackware here. /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are hard
drives, /dev/hdc is an Iomaega Zip drive, and /dev/hdd is my CDROM
drive. That worked just fine for both. I've also done Slackware with
/dev/hda a hard drive and /dev/hdb a CDROM drive with no troubles. Not
sure where you heard about the HD and the CD needing to be on certain
controllers, but it just ain't so.
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