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Ice-9:
Put both your hard drives on IDE1 as Master/Slave, then on IDE2 put your DVD as master and your cd-rw as slave.

With the current generation of motherboard chipsets there is no reason anymore to have to put your dvd and cd-rw on a separate IDE bus and some distros make a problem of your hard drives being on two different IDE controllers, SuSE did, Red Hat I don't know.

DJ:

quote:Originally posted by Ice9:
Put both your hard drives on IDE1 as Master/Slave, then on IDE2 put your DVD as master and your cd-rw as slave.

With the current generation of motherboard chipsets there is no reason anymore to have to put your dvd and cd-rw on a separate IDE bus and some distros make a problem of your hard drives being on two different IDE controllers, SuSE did, Red Hat I don't know.
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The guy I bought the computer from, told me when I purchased my burner that it needed to be set up that way in order for it to recognize it and work properly so that's what I did.

But I set it up the above mentioned way and it picked up on all drives so I just need to start that install. Quick question, if I go ahead and install RH as opposed to Mandrake will it ask me about where to put the boot information or does it automatically do that? Will I have to boot from disk once it is done and change the boot information?

Dj

[ December 03, 2002: Message edited by: Engineer ]

Ice-9:
Yo don't need to worry about that, accept the default choices.
RH is gonna place the bootloader in your mbr, you won't have to boot from floppy, but make a bootdisk in case you screw something up after the install.

emh:

quote:
kernel panic: no init found

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This page on the Mandrake forum discusses the error and how to fix it.  Although it was for Mandrake 8.1, it might still apply for other distros.

http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1398&lang=en

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