Installation Help

[albert at ccs.neu.edu (Albert Cahalan)]

> Since the second disk is totally Linux, the drive designators, as far 
> as DOS is concerned, have not changed, i.e. first hard disk is still
> drive C whereas the CD drive is still drive D.
>
> Both hard disks are connected to the primary IDE connector, and the 
> CD is connected to the secondary IDE connector. Upon booting up
> with the boot disk, Linux did not report finding any CD drive. The
> two hard disks were identified. ide0 is also identified which, I could 
> only guess, might be the primary ide connector?

The CD must be set to 'single', not 'slave'.

> Am I missing something here? What are my alternatives? I tried to 
> copy the entire slackware directory onto the C drive just to get the 
> installation going, but the long file names just got in the way.

You could pass drive info to the kernel at the LILO prompt.

> Digital AC2850RTL, and the CD drive is a Mitsumi.

You need the IDE CD bootdisk, not the Mitsumi one.