I gave the latest Red Hat and Slackware a spin in my notebook. Red Hat
7.1 used to work fine on my notebook, but when I tried 7.2, I got
problems mounting my PCMCIA CD-ROM! :( As for Slackware, she ran
gracefully but I got the shock of my life with XFree86 (it ran merely by
setting a proper frame buffer console). Generally, I'm happy with
Slackware and sad with Red Hat. My experiences tell me that Slackware is
the soonest to work on most of the hardware I've acquired(as weird
as parallel port IDE devices and PCMCIA CD-ROMS for notebooks) and
maintain one of the lowest hardware requirements for Linux(I got
Slackware 7 run fast in a 486DX33 with 8MB of RAM, but ofcourse only in
text mode). However, I didn't like how XFree86 now is to be configured
under Slackware. :(

Can anyone tell me how I could mount my PCMCIA CD-ROM work under Red Hat
7.2? A mere "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" used to work under
Red Hat 7.1.

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