installing Linux by floppy to get driver

[Tom Buskey]

My old 486 didn't have a builtin CDROM.  I had an Adaptec 1542b and an
external SCSI CD ROM.  Redhat, Mandrake, etc all work just fine with
that setup.  The CD can be from a mac or sun as well.  Any SCSI CD-ROM
drive will work with CDs in the boxed set (stamped).  Older drives can
have issues with CD-R disks.  CD-RW can only be read on newer drives.


"Matthew J. Brodeur" said:
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>On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Erik Price wrote:
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>> I have a friend at work who has an older i486 and wants to install 
>> Linux onto it, perhaps to run Apache or something.  The problem is that 
>> he doesn't have the CD ROM driver for it.  I know that the IDE driver 
>> is built into the Linux kernel (or I think it is), but his is a SCSI 
>> model -- it's a Digital Celebris model, or something like that.
>
>   I *think* that Red Hat's standard boot floppy (boot.img) supports SCSI 
>cards & CD-ROMs.  You may need one of the supplemental driver disks 
>(drvblock, oldcdrom, etc) as well, but I don't think so.  I'd create the 
>boot floppy and see what it detects.
>   There may be an issue with the age of the CD drive, though.  Many older 
>drives can't read recordable discs.  Again, the easiest way to find out is 
>to try it.
>
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>- -- 
>     -Matt
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