Bug 2271 – CD-ROM install requires loading a module

Bug 2271 - CD-ROM install requires loading a module

Summary:	CD-ROM install requires loading a module

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	installer (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	1999-04-19 12:19 EDT by sdaftuar
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-31 12:02:08 EDT
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Description sdaftuar 1999-04-19 12:19:18 EDT

I have an unsupported CD-ROM drive, but I was able to patch
a kernel with support for it, and I replaced the kernel on
the RedHat boot floppy with my kernel.  This kernel does
recognize my CD-ROM at boot; however, the installer won't
let me do a CD-ROM install because it wants to find a CD-ROM
driver module to use with it (and loading these modules
fails, since I have no such drive).  If the installer
allowed me to skip this (and switch to a virtual console, so
I could create the appropriate entry in /dev), then I'd be
set.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 12:02:59 EDT

The installer can't let you switch to a CD-ROM then, because
there's no shell to switch to (no space on the boot disk.)

You'd have to patch the installer.

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