Did you happen to check and make sure your cd-rom reads cd-r? ----- Original Message ----- From: mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake on old 486 -CD not found !!! > 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 > > _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
