I bought on the Internet an Red Hat distribution ... ( not orig, but
selfburned )
and it works ...
My IDE-CD Rom is show´n like´n SCSI drive , but it works...
Maybe it´s an bad burned CD ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Payne" <rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org>
To: <axp-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Trouble installing 7.0 on PWS 500a: still more info
>
> With the PWS series the IDE (ATAPI) devices show up as SCSI in
> SRM. There's some IDE->SCSI emulation that SRM does....
>
> As for why it won't use your CD? I don't know, I've seen this myself
> several times, and I can only trace it to a bad CD. Buring another one
> solved the problem.
>
> --rdp
>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, John Clayton wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that my CDROM mounts in linux as device hdc - it's ATAPI
> > (same as IDE, right?). However, it is being recognized by srm as dkb0,
a
> > SCSI device. It's also recognized as such by AlphaBios (I also have
SCSI
> > hard drives). Might this be related to the problem?
> >
> > John M. Clayton
> > EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow
> > Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow
> >
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> >
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> > Go Tigers!
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, John Clayton wrote:
> >
> > > The install log says "trying to mount device hdc" as the last entry
when
> > > the error occurs.
> > >
> > > John M. Clayton
> > > EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow
> > > Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Environmental Engineering Phone (404) 894-9725
> > > Georgia Institute of Technology Fax (404) 894-9724
> > > email: johnc@osiris.ce.gatech.edu
> > >
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> > >
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> > > Go Tigers!
> > >
> > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, John Clayton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am trying to install 7.0 on a pws500a. I have CD's burned with
> > > > downloaded image files, and according to other machines the
directory
> > > > structures are properly written to the CD's.
> > > >
> > > > I'm forced to install from a boot floppy and ramdisk via SRM. In my
> > > > attempts to boot from the first CD, the boot sector was recognized
but
> > > > the CD could not be subsequently read. Anyway, I get to the text
mode
> > > > installation screens, but once I select "Local CDROM" in the
> > > > Installation Method screen, I get an error:
> > > >
> > > > "I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM drives.
> > > > Please insert the Red Hat CD and press OK to retry"
> > > >
> > > > The CD is present. Furthermore, my CDROM drive is locked and I
can't open
> > > > it to retrieve the CD without rebooting. I know that the correct
> > > > directory structure is present on the CD and that all the files are
> > > > probably there. Also, the CDROM drive works properly under an
existing
> > > > version of Linux (6.1, I believe).
> > > >
> > > > Please help. I checked the archives and didn't see anything to
help.
> > > >
> > > > John M. Clayton
> > > > EPA STAR Graduate Research Fellow
> > > > Former NSF Graduate Research Fellow
> > > >
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> > > > Georgia Institute of Technology Fax (404) 894-9724
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> > > >
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