Hello, everyone. I am working with a guy in our office to get SuSE 8 Pro installed on his aging Compaq Armada laptop. It has an external floppy hooked up to the parallel port and a Backpack CD-ROM drive hooked up to the PCMCIA controller, which is basically a second parallel port. We already tried to hook the CD drive up to the LPT1 port instead of the floppy so we can boot straight from the CD, but that doesn't work. So, how are we going about this ? Since the CD drive isn't bootable, we created the four floppies and booted from those. In order for the hard drive to be detected, we had to select "Installation - Safe Settings". The installation autoloads the PCMCIA modules, and then complains about not finding the CD, and drops me at the menu whereby I can load modules. The correct module seems to be the 'bpck' module under "Load CDROM Modules". Everything loads OK until we get to the 'pcd' module, which fails to load. This module defaults to trying to use the io=0x378, i.e. LPT1/lp0. From loading this stuff up in Windows, it seems that the PCMCIA card uses io=0x290. After doing some googling, it seems that I should be passing a parameter to parport_pc that tells it to look for more than one parallel port. This module is loaded as part of the sequence for bpck, so when it came up, I gave it the following parameters... io=0x378,0x290 irq=none,none On the log screen, there are a couple of error message, and then it seems to load the module OK, and I get parport0 and parport1 listed. Then when pcd tries to load, I give it the parameter of io=0x290 to force it to use the 2nd parallel port. But all I get is a horrible squawk and a red screen and the module doesn't load. Of course, this is a showstopper, as I can't do a great deal more without the CDs. We have considered doing a network install, but would rather use the CDs if at all possible. Has anyone else managed to do an install from one of these CD drives ? If so, how ? The instructions on the manufacturer's site for the Backpack drive hint at RedHat detecting this automatically, so we might try that too, since we have that sitting on a shelf. But for preference, we'd like to have SuSE on it. Thanks, Stuart.