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Dear All,

I have been trying to install RH4 on my PC: 486DX33, 4Mb (will soon be
16Mb), 1.7Gb HDD, Single speed Mitsumi CDROM

The installation program cannot find the CD-ROM at all - even with the
Autoprobe function. I then tried specifying my own settings since under
DOS I know the I/O Base is 300h, the IRQ is 10 and the DMA is 5.
Therefore, I tried,

LILO boot: linux mcd=0x300,10

but this did not help.

A few years ago I had slackware running with that CDROM fine.

Can anybody help?

Thanks in advance.

John Walker

        Keith

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Q: What's more dangerous than a room full of angry Narns?
A: One angry Centauri backing them, who has bribed your guards...

I also have this problem except I'm using a double speed (Mitsumi
FX001D)
with RedHat 4.1 on a Gateway 486DX2.  I also experienced the same
trouble
in the past when trying to install Slackware.

I have found that if I boot to DOS first (to load the DOS CD driver) and
then
soft boot using ctrl-alt-delete, then as long as I specify mcd=0x340,11
at boot
time then it detects it OK.  HOWEVER . . . I still get problems, and the
install
crashes :-(

I eventually nearly got around this problem by copying the install tree
to hard disk
and did an install from there.  The only problem was that about 4 files
wouldn't
copy to the DOS drive (e.g. the nenscript rpm was one).  I think this is
because the
CD stores the files in under ISO9660 with Rockridge extensions (i.e.
long file names) and
the translated short file names are incompatible with DOS.  Anyway, it
"kind of" installs
OK, but I got some problems with sendmail and http daemons when
rebooting.  I think (hope!)
this is due to my partially fouled up install rather than anything wrong
with the RedHat 4.1
release.

I have had some further success by changing the hard coded IRQ in the
source code
for the mcd driver, but I still can't get around the "boot to DOS first"
problem.  Also, I can't
get a "clean" install, because I need an install disk that *properly*
recognises my CD ROM.
(Could I fix this by reinstalling all the RPMs directly from the CD ROM
?)

Any ideas ?

(I suspect that my woes may be caused by having some weird Gateway
peripherals - time to trash it and buy that P166 I've been promising
myself . . . . not from
GW2K though !

I'm joining  to the list of people having problem installing
RedHat from CDROM.

I tried to install the distribution of  RedHat 4.1 from
CD-ROM without any success. I'm using a pentium 133 with a MATSHITA,
ATAPI CD ROM. When I boot from the disk, it recognize the CDROM but when
it ask for the RedHat CDROM,  instalation program died.

I gave up and installed Red Hat via ftp. it works ok except
when I try to use the CDROM.  I ask the people at RedHat but
they havent give me an answer, (I guess they don't know).

by the way, I installed win95 in a different partition and
the CDROM seems to work  ok.

Manuel Julio Garcia
Aeronautical Eng Department
Sydney University

I am having similar problem with Red Hat 4.0 with Sony cdu31a (SB16?card
2x CD). The install fails to see the CD?drive. Slackware seems to work
without problems so I would assume Red Hat have introduced a bug.

The other thing I found was forcing recognition of no-bios
SCSI?controller Future Domain TMC-850 does not work for Red Hat, but
does work for Slackware.

Red Hat need to maintain backward compatibility with things that used to
work. I don't want to pull out my CD/ Soundblaster and upgrade.

Well Hi Guys,
        The only reason I am answering this is 'cause I use the Slackware
version 3.0 and I have a Mitsumi FX001D and it worked fine I used the
IDECD1 packet I beleive and it picked it up fine. it satrted up read the
cd and installed. I am using it on a PC Compatible 486 DX2-66 with 16 mb
of ram and 989 mb hd, so I am not sure why you are having the problem
but I will document my install and let you know.

Michael A Cooper

Doubtful, to say the least. If your CDROM drive is really
the FX001D and not the FX001DE, then you did use the MITSUMI image.
The DE model is the ATAPI version, wheras the D model uses its prorietary
interface card.

Michael
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: Dear All,
:
: I have been trying to install RH4 on my PC: 486DX33, 4Mb (will soon be
: 16Mb), 1.7Gb HDD, Single speed Mitsumi CDROM

[snip]

: Can anybody help?

Check the redhat mailing archives. I believe about Oct/Nov96
timeframe. You didn't mention any symptoms/details so going from memory
from what I went thru: The problem was autoprobe wouldn't find it,
specifying the parameters worked partially with an erroneous "no cdrom
in drive" type error. A new boot image was put on Redhat's ftp site,
and it worked ok.

I deleted those messages but Im sure the archives have them.  IMHO
mitsumi support in current kernels has been pretty flaky, if you have
the wherewithal replace it with something newer.

Cheers,
Jay.