[Wylug-help] Installing on ancient systems?

[Anne Wilson]

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On Tuesday 04 May 2004 14:27, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> Many early CD drives could not read CD-R media.
> Even more drives cannot read CD-RW media, or can only read some
> brands.
>
> Just looking at CD (pressed) and CD-R/CD-RW media shows a significant
> difference in reflectivity - and older drives need more reflectivity
> back from the media to work.
>
That may be the reason, Nigel.  The old box had a 12x cd reader in,
although I replaced that with a 24x one, and it made no difference.
The Celeron 300 box has a 36x cd-rom.

Of course the two problems may be unrelated, but from the messages I'm
seeing from both MEPIS and Mandrake it would appear that it can boot,
but then can't find the cdrom at the next stage.  Further - the message
from Mandrake asked which scsi device it should then try, which
suggests to me some sort of problem related to scsi-emulation.  What do
you think?

Anne
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