[tlinux-users:07815] Re: Installing SuSE 10.0: kernel loads but CD-ROM won't mount

Thanks Chris -- you have grasped the problem exactly. I plan to get some
flavour of Linux going on the old laptop because I refuse to landfill it.
Itile. may be a wh

cheers,

-j

On 11/05/06, Christopher R. Hertel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay...  If I have this right (and I get confused about this stuff),
> here's
> what happens when you boot to the installation system:
>
> - During the system boot, the BIOS (not the OS, which isn't loaded yet)
>    recognizes the CD-ROM as a boot device and reads the initial software
>    from the CD-ROM.  It places that software into memory and then runs it.
> [...]
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Chris -)-----
>
> John Richmond wrote:
> > I am a total newbie to linux <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/#> and i
> > would appreciate any assistance. I am trying to install SuSE 10.0 on to
> > a Toshiba Satellite 440CDT with a built in CD-ROM. I changed the BIOS to
> > boot off the installation Disk 1 and proceeded with the first few steps
> > successfully such as setting the keyboard. But then I got an error
> > message saying "Unable to mount CD-ROM". The CD-ROM waas in the machine
> > and running and the installer had just booted off it! Unfortunately I
> > cannot make a bootable floppy and have no built in network support
> > (PCMCIA card comes later).
> >
> > TIA
>
>
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