On Mon Dec 11 2000 at 12:53, John Summerfield wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > I need to install redhat 7.0 on a box that has no networking
> > available, but it does have an old panasonic cdrom hanging off a
> > soundblaster card. (Even if networking was available, setting up a
> > local nfs server on a box in its local area network for a netboot
> > install would be tricky).
>
> > The driver module I obviously need to add to the installer is sbcd.o
> > (I assume taken from the kernel-BOOT package).
>
> The first question to ask/answer is "Are you sure it's not an IDE CDROM drive?"
Reasonable question. No, it is _not_ an ide cdrom interface that
I'm using. But I do have one of those at home, and ide interface on
a SB vibra16S card. They work well and I can install from them
out of the box.
But this particular cdrom is definitely on old CDR-263 (or whatever
specific model) 2X or 4X panasonic hanging off it on the _panasonic_
interface. If I boot something like tomsrtbt and load the sbcd.o
module, then it works. I am aware of the difference.
(Heh, lately I seem to be dealing with a lot of older software.
It would be folly for redhat to start to regard old hardware as
obselete stop giving native support for it.
The fact that XFree86 4.0 has dropped support for legacy video
cards is a real worry. But what does please me is that the older
3.3.6 drivers with that support are included in the distribution.
That is a very, VERY good move. Thanks for that. This legacy
support needs to be kept there for a long time to come...
But I want to know how I can get the installer's kernel to easily
load that sbcd.o driver module!
Can anyone tell me??? please...
> I ask because I have a SB16 card with an IDE interface; I used to hang a disk
> drive off it.
> I also have a Panasonic CD drive of about that vintage (though I can't lay my
> hands on it just now, it's retired hurt), and I'd describe THAT as old. It has
> an IDE interface too. FWIW it's 4x. I think OS/2 detected it as Matsushita
> CF4, but my memory isn't perfect;-(
Cheers
Tony
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