Some more info on the CDrom drive. I found the 'User Manual' and the specssay:
DRIVE TYPE : ATAPI CD-ROM 24X MAX INTERFACE : PC card 2.1 Type II or Type III OPERATING SYSTEM DRIVERS : DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 & Windows NT
And in the Win98 install instructions there is the text:
There should be now two new entries in the list of devices displayed by the Device Manager, one under the heading 'CDROM' which shows the model of CDROM laser drive (e.g. TEAC CDROM xxxx) and another entry under 'Hard Drives' with the name of the device driver 'Standard ESDI/IDE driver'. In most cases, there will be two such entries, one for the internal IDE hard drive and a second for the NW24XCD drive (the same driver is used for the internal hard drives and the NW24XCD).
At 09:46 PM 12/17/2005, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am trying to install Centos on my old Portege 2490CT. Actually a pretty good box, but it does not support USB booting. Only HDD, FDD (interestingly a USB device), 'CD-Rom', or LAN.
The only CDroms I have is a nice USB drive and an old PCMCIA toshiba NW24XCD drive.
I have not gotten this system to boot off of my USB CDrom. It will boot of the NW24XCD.
So I put the CentOS disk 1 in the drive and boot. Boot seems to go OK, it asks my the language preferences but then gives me the dialog:
What type of Media contains the packages to be installed?
When I select CDrom I get the dialog:
Unable to find may devices of the type neededfor this installation type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk?
And there is a list of a bunch of drivers.
I have a hunch that my PCMCIA NW24XCD is not a standard supported drive. :(
So what from the list do I select? Or where do I get a driver disk?
POI: I am not a Unix skilled person. I can get by with VI and the like, but otherwises I just have not devoted the time needed...
HELP?
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