After booting with pcmcia.img floppy disk(tried a lot both RH6.2 and 7) on a laptop, the pcmcia cd-rom drive(ATAPI) is initialized. However after selecting language and keyboard, what I see is the flollowing installation stage. What type of media contains the packages to be installed? Hard drive There is no other options. That is, no 'cd-rom' option. And I am sure this pc card cd-rom drive was detected because I can see when did ctl+alt+F4 like that; hdc: Toshiba ATAPI 20x..... heesang
There is a bug in the kernel which shipped with 6.2 which kept the kernel from seeing the device. If you look in /proc/ide, hdc probably is not showing up. This is how we detect cdrom in the anaconda installer. There are boot kernel options you can pass to make the device show up. I do not know the specifics for the Toshiba machine you have - what model is it? Also, I would recommend doing a web search for your machine model, the work 'linux' and 'cdrom' and see if anything turns up.
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