DVD in Red Hat 7.0

[Bill Lathan]

I was surprised this evening to find that I could not install Red Hat 7.0 using a DVD-ROM drive and a boot diskette. I installed this drive instead of a CDROM drive because some installation media I have is on DVD. The DVD-ROM drive is working properly as I tried a Windows 98 diskette and a dir on the Red Hat CD worked fine. However, when I attempt to install Red Hat, I get a message saying it cannot find the Red Hat CD.   After the above, I tried setting the BIOS to boot directly from CDROM using the DVD-ROM drive, and lo and behold, the CD was read without a hitch and the installation is proceeding well at this moment. So, I've overcome the problem, but I am curious. Is a special driver needed for a DVD-ROM that is simply not on the boot diskette? Or is there another reason? Enquiring minds want to know.   TIA, Bill