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I'm a complete newbie trying to install RH5.1 onto a Compaq Prolinea 4/33.
Unfortunately, my CD-ROM is a Phillips with its own controller card. DOS
sees it okay, and will read a CD for me, but Linux complains that there's
no CD drive of that type. I've tried autosensing as well as telling it its
location (=0x340,5) with no luck.

Switching to Redneck installation language didn't make it install, but I
had more fun failing.  :^)

An alternative is using a SCSI CD-ROM (I'm a mac geek so I have a couple
of those lying around). A friend gave me an Archive (?) 8-bit ISA
controller card. Archive Corp. appears to have been bought by Conner who
were bought by Seagate-- no specs or other info. The chip on the card
says:

20940-001
NCR0380704
F841552
A9025

Does anybody know if this would work? I couldn't find any reference to it
in RedHat's FAQ.

I'm trying to do this on the cheap (obviously!), but will spend money if I
can't make one of my two freebees work.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

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Bubba Dave Pooser
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Don't you have to mount the CD in order to use it.  I do this each
time I log on, for I am new and haven't yet got to having the
programme do it automatically.  You gotta do this in root.

root:  mount /dev/hd? /cdrom

it works best for me if there is a CD in the Rom drive.  The question
mark is there for you will have to discover whether your cdrom is b,
c, d, such as hdb, hdc, hdd,.....

you don't have to mount it to /cdrom, you can give it any name you
want, but I suggest you use the features provided by the install
programme, until you feel more at ease.

I have two CDRoms on my dinky little Pentium 75, and I mount the first
to /cdrom and the second to /cdrom2

root:  mount /dev/hdb /cdrom
root:  mount /dev/hdc /cdrom2

They work fine for the session after that.

I turn off my machine after I have finished using it, so I have to
mount them, for now, each time I log on.

I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough. I can't get the Linux
*installer* to recognize the CD-Rom. Since I'm trying to install off of
CD... well, you get the idea.

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Bubba Dave Pooser
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I'm not currently using a scsi card; I'm using a Phillips CM260 CD with a
Phillips CM206 controller. The install asks me to select a driver; I
select the Phillips CM206/CM260. It asks if it should autoprobe. If I let
it probe, "I can't find that device anywhere on your system." If I select
the manual setup I fill in CM206=0x340,5 (port 340, IRQ5, set by jumpers
on the ISA card) and... nothing. Same "can't find device" error message.
But DOS reads the CD, so it doesn't seem like a hardware problem. I'm
baffled!

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Bubba Dave Pooser
If you can't figure out my email address,
I don't care what you have to say.

Need more info try to copy down the error messages and post them.
also what type of scsi card you are using.
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ASCII silly question, get a stupid ANSI.

[...]

Quote:>I'm not currently using a scsi card; I'm using a Phillips CM260 CD with a
>Phillips CM206 controller. The install asks me to select a driver; I
>select the Phillips CM206/CM260. It asks if it should autoprobe. If I let
>it probe, "I can't find that device anywhere on your system." If I select
>the manual setup I fill in CM206=0x340,5

[...]

Try

cm206=0x340,5

since this is case-sensitive.

If it still doesn't work, try booting DOS first and the booting into
the Linux setup with a warm reboot.

Michael
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No luck with the warm reboot either-- any other suggestions?

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Bubba Dave Pooser
If you can't figure out my email address,
I don't care what you have to say.