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On 1/15/06, Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
The message a94f2b6b0601151213m7927d5fbt95272e46edf89f2b@mail.gmail.com from "Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D." lists@ashleyhowes.com contains these words:
Yeah, I had to resort to floppies recently to install Debian on a Pentium 3. The CD-ROM drive just refused to boot, even though there was a BIOS setting for it. It reminded me of my slackware days :)
Was it a SCSI drive, mayhap?
No, IDE. It just refused to boot on that PC. The same drive in any other PC I have is fine. It was a while ago now, so is no longer a problem.
I had a similar promble trying to install Win 2000 on a box a while ago. Debian (Woody) went on without demur, and ran perfectly (AFAICT).
Installing Win 2000 was a completely different matter, however. The process started OK and continued until it needed to install SP1. Then it wouldn't find the CD drive, even though the SCSI drivers had been installed, and by doing a 'Browse' I could show it *EXACTLY* where i386 was. Could it see it? Could it f-f-f- er - flip.
More than 20 attempts.
Installed seamlessly on a nasty Time 233 MMX box, but not on a (comparatively) fast PIII-450 on a decent board with other stuff of decent quality. Oh no.
But then the Time box didn't have any SCSI in it innit.
Now the new (FSVO new) box, an AMD-950 accepts everything (except Knoppix 3·1, which doesn't know about fairly recent ATI graphics cards, though Knoppix 4·02 has been told): Win 2000 Pro, Sarge, Ubantu runs, and I have a copy of Mempis ready to play with. It has an IDE CD/DVD-RW though, not just a CD-ROM drive. (but it still had four SCSI hard drives.)