There are those who would have you believe that robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > I'm just in the procedure of installing potato on a virgin system. > Everything seems to be ok, I'm just unsure when it comes to choose the > appropiate modules. > > This box has a ATAPI CDROM which is currently used by the debian > boot/install procedure. > > What are all those cdrom devices in the modules list for? Are these > devices without a ATAPI interface? > > I assume to choose non but unsure having a ready system without cdrom > support. > > Any comments would be helpful. >
Those are for old proprietary CD-ROM interfaces. Hardly anyone uses them anymore, but they were common when CD-ROMs first came out. As long as you have a standard ATAPI or SCSI CD-ROM you don't need to worry about them.
