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I have an old panasonic cf61 laptop (pentium 1), circa 1996. When I install linux ( i have tried Deli and Caldera 2.3 ) it doesn't recognise my internal cd ...
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- 10-30-2004 #1Just Joined!
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linux installation doesn't recognise cdrom in laptop
I have an old panasonic cf61 laptop (pentium 1), circa 1996. When I install linux ( i have tried Deli and Caldera 2.3 ) it doesn't recognise my internal cd rom and won't install after i have run the boot discs. Any suggestions?
- 10-30-2004 #2Linux Guru
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open up your BIOS settings, and make sure that it's set the boot priority so that it tries your CDROM drive before your hard drive.
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- 10-31-2004 #3Just Joined!
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no cdrom bootability
The bios only gives me options to boot from floppy, harddrive or PD drive.
I also tried to install suse 9.1 however it too failed to recognise the cdrom.
- 11-01-2004 #4Linux Engineer
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you tried a network install?
- 11-01-2004 #5Linux Newbie
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vector linux is great for old pc's....you should give it a try.
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