i have been looking at the i586 docs and it says you cab install from dos (not windows) does this apply to the i486 version, here is the section from the i586: ................ 2. Launch install from MS-DOS If you have MS-DOS installed on your computer, you can boot the installation system directly from the CD without using any diskettes. To do this (assuming your CD is drive D:), use the following commands: C:\> D: D:\> cd \dosutils\autoboot D:\dosutils\autoboot> autoboot.bat Note that this method will not work if run in a DOS window -- the autoboot.bat file must be executed with DOS as the only operating system. In other words, Windows cannot be running. .......... if your cdrom can be made to work in dos then perhaps you could create a dos bootdisk that includes your cdrom drivers and do something like this - if there is an equivalent autoboot.bat in your distro? bascule mendes wrote: > > On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote: > > during the boot up messages when you run the install disk, do you see > > references to the cdrom drive being found? > > No, but I think this is because the cdrom is attached to a sound card. I > tried something simailr with on old 486 and worked. cdrom.img managed to get > the cdrom as sbpc. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Ed > > i just installed red hat 6.0 > > on a very old vlb 486 on account of mandrake being i586 optimised and i > > had loads of difficulty, after messing with changing master/slave > > options for the drive and using a different ide interface i eventually > > got a reference to 'hdd atapi 8x cdrom found' in the messages scolling > > on the screen at boot up, prior to this i had the problem with not being > > able to find an appropriate module and i noticed at that time that only > > the hard disk was being 'found' at boot up > > > > bascule > > > > mendes wrote: > > > > > > Hello > > > I am trying to install Mandrake-7.02 (486 iso) on a 486 PC/33 with > > > 20MB and 2 HDs: 210 MB and 1.08 GB. It has a CD (Creative 1220 E) attached to a > > > Sound Blaster Card 16. I created a boot disk using a cdrom.img. I tried all the > > > modules for cdrom available (sbpc etc.) and got nothing. The cd is working > > > pretty fine on Windows. I run out of ideas. Can you help me? > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > Eduardo
