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Failure to boot install-disk from SCSI CD-ROM drive.

Subject: Failure to boot install-disk from SCSI CD-ROM drive.
From: jgaspinall at rcn.com (John Aspinall)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:33:38 -0500
References: <FKENIOEPJJOBKAKCDGLIMEBDDFAA.chy@genuity.com>

Thanks to several people for imformative replies.

I Googled on "Loading spec packet failed" and found a bunch of stuff about how ISOlinux couldn't find  SCSI CD-ROM drives.  Luckily, the Mandrake ISO could be opened in Windows and it contained a raw-disk-image writer, and some floppy images.  One of those
images was supposed to be able to find a SCSI CD-ROM.  I was able to boot from the floppy, which could then find the CD, and the installation went fine from there on.

regards,
John Aspinall

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