RedHat Linux 7.3 and Compaq Deskpro 4000

[bkelsay at comcast.net]

RedHat Linux 7.3 and Compaq Deskpro 4000Try setting the CD drive as master on the secondary 
controller and see if that solves it.  Also if you have a Mitsumi cd drive I have had trouble 
booting to them with windows or linux.
Brian Kelsay
----- Original Message -----
From: Moss, Jon
To: 'kclug at kclug.org'
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: RedHat Linux 7.3 and Compaq Deskpro 4000

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.

Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions for proceeding?  Should I download an older version of RedHat 
for this computer?

All comments are greatly appreciated!

Jon Moss