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<P align=left>Pionex 486 80 meg hardrive Boot device c or a: cdrom not allowed
toboot..I Installed it after system purchase Objective dual boot linux 8.0 and
win 3.11 </P>
<P align=left>--</P>
<P align=left>This is all to complicated....got a publishers CD R/H version 8.0
two cdset....Of course the CD drive is non-boot...so I went about making a boot
disk from Ver 8.0</P>
<P align=left>boot.img from redhat.</P>
<P align=left>That crashed...it hangs Using slinky or miniconda I have been able
to</P>
<P align=left>partition the disk to </P>
<P align=left>ha1,ha2,ha3. Slinky makes it thru to the hardware probes and
recognizes</P>
<P align=left>the three </P>
<P align=left>partitions and fd0, and hde which I am assuming is cdrom drive e.
I cannot</P>
<P align=left>however access</P>
<P align=left>drive e and also do not have such options to choose from in
slinky. Have</P>
<P align=left>tried at boot:linux hde=cdrom</P>
<P align=left>to no avail BTW one version of R/H boot ver 6.2 I think attempts
to access</P>
<P align=left>drive e just fine </P>
<P align=left>but cannot find the right directory I suspect to start loading of
the</P>
<P align=left>RPMS.</P>
<P align=left>Sams teach yourself linux 8.0 seems to assume R/H 8.0 is going to
boot up</P>
<P align=left>your system off</P>
<P align=left>the cdrom and load. (it will on my IBM AMD 400, but I don't want
to do that</P>
<P align=left>at this time). I'm </P>
<P align=left>starting to feel like an idiot even though I do DOS a bit and work
on CNC</P>
<P align=left>machining </P>
<P align=left>electronics.. BTW I have used several different versions of slinky
and</P>
<P align=left>miniconda to no avail.</P>
<P align=left>The drive is to small to download Iso's I think...and I probably
wouldn't</P>
<P align=left>know what to do with </P>
<P align=left>them when I got them.</P>
<P align=left>Am I over-reaching to try to revive this Pionex 486 with 3rd party
cdrom</P>
<P align=left>and no cdrom boot </P>
<P align=left>bios??? Will it be worth the aggravation?? P.S. without being
insulting</P>
<P align=left>or wanting to start a flame,</P>
<P align=left>is this the norm for Red Hat or is linux still for the advanced
user????</P>
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<P align=left>Thanks harold</P>
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