Replacing bad CDRom drive

Mon Jun 9 23:01:49 CDT 2003

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Jon Moss wrote:

> I have a new 52x CD-ROM I would like to install in it's place.  I've
> done this many, many times on WinDoze computers, but never on a Linux
> workstation.

Is the cdrom on the IDE bus?  USB?  Firewire?

If you can boot from it, it should work.  Otherwise, you need a boot
floppy with the appropriate drivers for its particular hardware bus.

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