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I was annoyed at how much disk space seemed to be taken up with stuff I
didn't install (not on purpose): I had a 1 Gb drive that was 95% full.
So I decided to reinstall from CD.

Big mistake, it turns out. Got lots of space back but I can't load my
cdrom drive now: the device was never created and I have no idea what
the modes might be. Once I get that done, I can install KDE and the rest
of the stuff I use.

Ah, the CD ROM. I had many problems with mine too. I fixed my problem be
setting it as a slave to the master hard drive. Just pretend your CD ROM
is a hard drive and put it on the slave connectin of your IDE cable and
set the jumper. You will have to check to see what jumper settings you
need in the installation book that came with it, or e-mail the company's
tech support on how to. Reboot your computer, and it should come up:
Detecting IDE Master: ABC12345
Found CDROM: ABC123
The numbers and letters will be your specific hard drive and CDROM drive
make. If you wanted to (and with the right BIOS settings), you could boot
off you CD ROM now, not even having to have a boot floppy. This should
give you access to install KDE. Good Luck with your new system!

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