[4815] in RedHat Linux List
Re: redhat and CDROM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Minjui Huang)
Sun Nov 17 16:44:00 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:44:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Minjui Huang <huang@cycds5.nscl.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611171438.PAA21360@minnie.xos.nl>
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Hi,
If your CD-ROM connects to PAS16 sound card, you need to have
the following command at the boot time in lilo :
pas16=0x388,10
(Suppose your PAS16 SCSI at I/O address 0x388 and IRQ 10)
Minjui
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 15:38:43 +0100 (MET)
> From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: redhat and CDROM
>
> > Well I've been lurking on this list for some time now and decided to take
> > the plunge. I went and got the RedHat 4 and am not having a great deal of
> > success installing it. My first and #1 problem is that I can not get it to
> > recognize my CDROM. My system is a Compaq 486SX, 33mhz, 16megs Ram, 1.2g HD,
> > and my CDROM is something that came with my PC, it seems to be a product of
> > compaq called CDS and it is controlled by a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum
> > 16 board. I have tried every combination that I can think of with the RedHat
> > installation. Well not letting myself be beat, I decided to just copy it all
> > to my DOS partition and run the install from there. Well it would seem that
> > DOS does not recognize many of the file names and So I can not copy all of
> > the necassary files to my HD.
> > I'm now stuck!!!..................
> > If any of you kind souls have any suggestions or Ideas I'm all ears. I have
> > tried to look for a more detailed FAQS on forcing LILO to read the CDROM but
> > from what I have found the DOCS are not very detailed. So I tried most of
> > the combinations that the install book suggest. like "hdc=cdrom" etc......
>
> So, if your CD is controlled by the PAS card it is a SCSI drive, for which
> you should select the PAS SCSI driver at the appropriate time. Don't use
> things like hdc=... or whatever, this is for ATAPI-IDE CD drives.
>
> --
> -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364
> -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
>
>
> --
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