Bug 26409

Summary:	Can't install from CDROM
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Steve Underwood <steveu>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	katzj
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Description Steve Underwood 2001-02-07 02:32:27 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686)


I am using a Sony Vaio Z505GAT with the Sony external CDROM. If I boot from
the fisher disk 1 CD I get to the screen where I select the install media
OK. However, I am then given the options Hard disk, NFS, FTP and HTTP.
There is no install from the CD option presented to me.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot from fisher CD
2. Answer questions about keyboard and such, and get to the media selection
3.Sit puzzled at why install from CD is missing
	

Actual Results:  I can choose install by FTP at the problem point, and
install just fine from an anonymous FTP directory on another machine.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-02-07 08:46:16 UTC

With the Vaio CD-ROM drives, I'm pretty sure had to pass an option to the kernel
with the I/O port of the CD-ROM drive.  Something like 'linux ide2=0x180' at the
syslinux prompt worked with them.  Can you try and see if this lets you access
the CD-ROM drive from the installer?

Comment 2 Steve Underwood 2001-02-07 15:12:09 UTC

OK, I should have included that in my original submission. I booted with
	linux ide2=0x180,0x386
which worked OK when installing RH7.0 on the same machine. To test fisher I did
a fresh install, and wiped the whole machine clean.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-07 16:29:32 UTC

Assigning to a developer.

Comment 4 Glen Foster 2001-02-08 15:51:51 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 5 Erik Troan 2001-02-08 22:11:36 UTC

This is fixed in CVS.