I'm booting from a floppy. It's a Sony, probably a 2x or 4x. I don't know when it was made. That gets me thinking a bit...... The drive is good, and the media is good, but maybe not good together. When I installed RH last time, it was on my AMD K6-2, and that has a much newer Teac cd-rom drive. Maybe I'll have to install my CD-RW in the external case, and try that. That's not very old, and should read anything. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA "Eric J. Korpela" wrote:

Doc wrote: Never tried to put any of them on a Microchannel machine. They should all work, though. This case sounds like a bad cable, or controller, or a drive or burner that needs cleaning maybe? Or maybe a problem with the media? Most of my production machines are running Slackware. Try out Slackware 8.0 sometime. If anything, the newer Slackwares have been more and more simple to install. Do remove relevant pkgs and install the slackware-current updates to cover some security vulns that have been found in most linux and unix distro's since last year. If you want to simplify or guify configuring and administering servers and daemons in a non-invasive manner, install Webmin, which is not included with Slackware. Speaking of Slackware, I did my first install from floppies made from images from NOPV10. My copy of that CD got trashed along the way, so I'm looking for a good source of old shareware, PD, and technical CD titles, especially now that Walnut Creek, either as a company or as a property, seems to have disappeared into thin air, along with the ftp archive. If anyone has any suggestions, please post them here. This is topical, since the CD's I'm thinking of originated in the late '80s, when large numbers were still dialing up BBS'es over Telenet/PC-Pursuit/Tymnet via X.25 switches running on PDP-10's and the like, or chatting and sharing files on dial-up or X.25 connected online services running on VAXen, Primes, and such. There just was no Internet for us unwashed masses back then, unless you used the facilities of a big corp or university. And it seems that this stuff, user-developed software from that era, is not just off the Internet radar, but in danger of sliding off the screen of historians, collectors, and hobbyists, as well. I think it is useful to make sure that it remains available for people who get hold of old machines with little or no software installed. jbdigriz

Chad Fernandez wrote: What model FD? jbdigriz

Chad Fernandez wrote: I just looked at the 2.4.19pre1 source, and the stock Linux Future Domain driver (fdomain.o) *should* work with that. You might have to pass the correct IRQ and base I/O address via a kernel or insmod parameter when booting or loading as a modules, eg. fdomain=<PORT_BASE>,<IRQ>,[<ADAPTER_ID>] I believe this card also has jumpers to set these parameters, so you might fool around with them, too. Also note that sometimes SCSI drivers need to be disabled during initial booting. You can do this by entering at the boot prompt: restart disable=fdomain Or dodge the problem by not compiling the driver into the kernel, and loading it as a module. Don't know if any of this will help with your problem, but you may find it useful anyway, if you want to put all your SCSI devices on the one controller. jbdigriz