Richard,
I haven't paid as much attention to this thread as I probably should have,
so please bear with me if I require you to get me caught-up with the rest...
Are the following true?
1) You have a 80486 and want to install some distro of Linux?
2) Your CD-ROM drive will not work?
Choose 1 only --
a) no matter what O/S you use?
b) only with the Linux boot disk starting the install?
c) only with the Linux CD (which you burned yourself elsewhere) in the CD
drive?
Number One is obviously true.
If under Number Two:
1) You are able to use the CD-ROM drive under Windows/DOS, but not under
Linux, you may have a CD-ROM drive that has an interface not compatible with
the distro's default drivers. Is the CD-ROM drive an IDE or is it attached
to the sound card with a proprietary interface? My guess is the latter may
require using a boot image that has the older non-IDE drivers on it that use
to standard issue five to seven years ago. The necessary boot image is on
the CD, assuming you are using that 'older' distro.
2) I am running very nicely RH 6.1 on a 486 board (Kingston P133 Overdrive
chip), 64 MBs RAM, 3 GB HD, 4X IDE CD-ROM. Gnome even skips to the lue!
Mandrake 7.2 runs OK, but Gnome is a bit painful on this distro. I had less
problems with installing RH 6.1, but that is no discredit to Mandrake.
There's a lot of difference between the two versions in time and
accomplishments. If getting a copy of either of the two distros is of
importance to you, and shipping a CD to you is not going to cost me an arm,
a leg and three fingers, your welcome to one. Just email me privately so as
not to tie up the listserv with it.
3) Be aware of the fact that CD-ROM drives of the 2X - 10X range may not be
able to read CD-Rs! If your drive is older, like the system you are loading
onto, your drive may not be able to read ANY distro burned
non-professionally. In this, I am assuming that you burned the distro on
some 'other' PC than this one. I have a Samsung 10X that will not read ANY
CD-R, yet functions fully. I also have a Goldstar 4X, older, that reads
CD-Rs fine. The fastest drive I have ever owned that won't read a properly
burned CD-R is a Toshiba 24X. Go figure?
4) Are you sure that your CD is readable to begin with? Have you checked it
out on a known working system to see if the CD-ROM can be read? If you don't
have one, call a neighbor or friend and see if the CD can be read on their
system. It doesn't need to be running Linux to be seen. If they can see it,
your CD-ROM drive is still the focus of your problem.
I see that Bill Spatz just hit the listserv with what I am hoping you were
not asking about. You do know how to make a bootable floppy from the CD to
start the install process that way? Right?
If I repeated what has already been said, sorry.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gilbert"
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
I can not view the cd, but my BIOS does not allow me to boot from a
cd!
Can I create floppies?
----- Original Message -----
From: "shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Help! Installing from ISO
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> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 2:22 pm, Richard Gilbert did speak unto
the
> huddled masses, saying:
>
> > Shane,
> >
> > I'm sorry, I finally found it, and burned a CD of it.
> > But now, lo and behold, my damnable Windows machine can't even SEE
my
> > CD drive!!!
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > I have an old BIOS, and may be hopeless.
>
> well i can't explain why it won't see the drive. if it only fails
to see
> the cd it may be a bad burn.
>
> the bios age should only force you to boot with a floppy to install.
it
> should still work. i have installed a couple of times that way.
can you
> view the cd on another machine? a friends or work machine maybe?
>
> - --
> "After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user
accounts.
> If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account
type of
> Administrator with no password." -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article
Q293834
>
> shane
> Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html
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> Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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