Sony CDU55E CD-ROM Drive and Slackware CD Installation

Sony CDU55E CD-ROM Drive and Slackware CD Installation

Post by Bill Spitz » Sat, 04 Mar 1995 05:18:01



My machine has a SCSI card and SCSI 1gig hard disk.  But somehow
the store talked me into getting a non-SCSI CD drive, and the
manual says it is a "Sony CD CDU55E".

From the news posted here it appears that this CD is supported by
newer kernels, including the 2.0.1 (?) that is on the disks I
have.  However all the bootdisk images are 1.1.59 and they can't
read the CD!

Do I lose completely?  Can I get a working bootdisk image?  Notice
that I do not yet have a working Linux and thus can't compile
anything!  Also is it true that I can make this CD work at all
with Linux?

Please answer quickly, I still have a few days in which I can
return this device to the store.


Thanks!