RedHat Linux 7.3 and Compaq Deskpro 4000

[Jason Clinton]

Moss, Jon wrote:

> Earlier this week I downloaded and verified the images from 7.3 and
> burned them to CDs.  I will check later to make sure they are 700 MB
> CDs (from reading a post on another mailing list).  I have an older
> DeskPro 4000 (Pentium 133 MHZ, 106 MB RAM) with two hard drives
> (Maxtor 1.7 GB and Western Digital 4.7 GB) and another IDE controller
> that has the floppy and the CDROM on it.
>
> I can get the installation program to start but it hangs and
> completely hoses the CDROM (can't eject CD, no response, etc.).  I'm
> using the boot option hdd=cdrom (it's the slave on the second IDE
> controller, the master is the floppy).  I can reboot and/or restart
> the workstation and the CD works fine again.
>
Attempt hdd=scsi and see what the result is then. Passing the access
commands through the SCSI driver may solve your problem.