scsi install

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- Stephen <sfielding7 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Good day
> 
> I am trying to install mandrake on a P3 733 MHz Asus CUBX system
> with a adaptec AHA 2940V2W scsi card device 5 is a Toshiba 640 cdrom
> mandrake 10 will not detect cdrom keeps asking for driver and none on 
> list work.
> On some chooses it asks for a parameter I have passed the device nbr (5) 
> but now luck.
> 
> has any one set up a system with no IDE drives
> 
> This inherited system has W98 running and all hardware works
> 

many insallers unfortunately assume the cdrom is /dev/hd?, I've come across
this on several others. In every situation the easiest method was to
temporarily plug in an IDE cdrom to do the install and pull it later..
Have you checked on mandrake's forums?


Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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