Katt Freyson wrote:

In article <<A HREF="msg01288.html">35E99410.323B983C@gte.net</A>>, you wrote:

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SuSE 5.2 comes with a boot disk or at least the boxed version I bought had a boot disk included with it. I have a similarly configured 486DX33 machine with that propritary SoundBlaster IDE CDROM drive but I haven't tried to install SuSE on it yet. Linux supports that CDROM drive as I do have Slackware 3.3 installed on that system currently.

Tony, Any help you can give me on making a boot disk with the right kernel? I've been trying to read the damn manual...The boot disk that comes with SuSE does not seem to help.

Katt

I've only installed SuSE 5.2 twice, once on a system with a IDE-ATAPI CDROM and the other had a SCSI one. 1) From what I recall when I did the SCSI install, I had to select a SCSI driver to get the CDROM to work. YaST presented me a list of drivers. With this in mind, are you able to get your system booted up and get YaST running? 2) If YaST is indeed running, does it ask you what type of CDROM you have? The proprietary Creative Lab CDROM drive is a Matsushita/Panasonic CDROM drive and there is a driver specifically for it. It looks like SuSE supports it as I see a reference to this CDROM drive on the bottom of page 194 in the SuSE 5.2 manual. That section of the manual deals with all of the configuration settings for a Linux kernel. Obviously that section isn't any help until you have a working Linux system installed and you want to configure and compile your own kernel. This leads me to believe that SuSE must support this CDROM and it's just a matter of getting YaST to load the appropriate CDROM driver I think. 3) I went back to the original set of kernel driver modules from my original SuSE 5.2 install. This has a kernel version of 2.0.33 and it does include the Sound Blaster CDROM driver. The name of the driver module is "sbpcd.o" 4) I did run YaST and I went into the menu option where I selected a CDROM drive. I looked at the list of CDROMs that are available and the "Sound Blaster Pro", "sbpcd", is listed in the list of CDROM drives. I believe that's the driver you want. I hope I've been of some help, Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer@gte.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e