When you boot from a CD-ROM drive, I believe the PC boot the first CD-ROM/CD-RW drive that it finds. If your CD-ROM and CD-RW drives are on the same cable, then set your CD-RW drive to be the master and the CD-ROM to be the slave. Anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong. HTH, Matt

From: Gary Bickford <garyb@fxt.com> To: SuSE Linux <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: [SLE] install from cdwriter / 6.4? Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:08:48 -0700

I'm running 6.3 on a system with HP9100 CDwriter, Freetech mobo, Athlon 650, ATI XPERT 128.

I was unable to boot the install disk from CDROM, so I had to boot from floppy. So I didn't have YaST2 available. In order to get X running I had to download a new ATI driver. For whatever reasons, various minor things didn't get installed correctly, which I ascribe to my inexperience with SuSE and the floppy boot/YaST method.

I still have kernel loading issues with the Soundblaster Live!! soundcard, but I haven't worked very hard at it yet.

Once booted, I've had no problems reading from the CDROM.

If I get 6.4, what are the chances that I can boot the install disk, use YaST2, and get the ATI and Soundblaster working without hassles? If chances are good, then that's easier than figuring out the problems.

-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/