From: Esmail Bonakdarian (esmail_at_uiowa.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 14:03:31 EST
Hello,
> AFAIK the 560X can't boot from a non-native (BIOS supported) device, so
> a PC card CDROM is not going to work. You can boot off a PC Card hard
> drive I think. But to my knowledge the 560x cannot boot off a CDROM. I
> have a 560x, and my CDROM is SCSI, so I'm 99.999% sure it's not bootable
> - never tried it either.
Yup, that's my conclusion now too.
> I tried RH 5.1, and got it working, but there were/are no drivers for my
> CDROM/Network card so I gave up. Now someone wrote drivers for the
> network card but there are still no CDROM drivers. Sigh.
Really, no CDROM drivers? What type of CDROM do you have? I have the
IBM external drive, picked it up for $99 refurb'ed. Works fine (once
Linux is running). I was running 5.2 for over a year on this system.
> You can change the boot sequence in Easy Setup - upon cold boot, hold
> down F1. From there follow the menus.
Got it .. the problem before was that I didn't have any of the
peripherals plugged in, hence that option was grayed out.
Thanks,
Esmail
PS: I'm trying an install from the Harddisk now, I cleared out some
space on the Win95 side and copied the CD there. Hopefully that
will work.
---- Esmail Bonakdarian - esmail_at_uiowa.edu - http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~bonak
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