Mark Hounschell wrote:

Mark Hounschell wrote:

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I'm unable to install SuSE-7.3 on this box. It has an ide cdrom that is connected to a narrow single ended scsi port. Dell says that they have made some modification to the bios to make the scsi port appear as an ide port. And in fact the system does see the cdrom as an ide cdrom. My problem is after the initial installation of cd number 1 and the reboot, When it asks for cd 2 it fails. I think this has something to do with this scsi/ide thing. Any one seen any thing like this? Dell says that in order to make that scsi port a real scsi port the bios will have to be reflashed. I guess I could do that and put a real scsi cd in there but I thought maybe some one else may have seen this before.

Thanks in advance Mark

I forgot to mention that even with cd 1 it doesn't automatically get into the install. I get errors about reading the cd but after hitting the continue option a few times it finally gets to the point that I can select yast or yast2. No matter which one I use the results are the same.

More info. It appears that SuSE linux thinks that this cdrom is an ide-floppy. It loads the ide-floppy module then says that there is no medium found. I've also found that if I switch consoles while the "Insert CD number 2" message is waiting for cd 2 and manually set up the cdrom as ide-scsi, mount it as such, then make a link from hda to sr0, the installation finishes ok. When the install is complete the cdrom will only work as ide-scsi. Dell says that the box will only work with red hat and that's the only linux they will support. Is there possible a command line option I can use for the reboot between cd 1 and cd 2 that will make the system see this drive as a cdrom instead of an ide-floppy???? -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com