Re: trouble install Linux on Dell Latitiude D810

Mortenius wrote:

> My boss just gave me a new laptop. And now I would like to have a
> dualboot, with SUSE and XP (actually I just want SUSU, but a man`s
got
> to work....)
>
> Problem:
> The install precedure stops after a short while, complaining that it

> can`t find the CDROM. I have tried SUSE 9.1, Red Hat 9 and Mandrake
10.


It may be this issue I had in Suse 9.0:

ISSUE: Installing Suse from CDRW/DVD combo drive: "no installation
software
packages found".

REASON: The installer can possibly be confused by the Combo Drive.

SOLUTION: Add the hdX=ide-scsi parameter on the blue GRUB screen. (X
is
connection, eg. hdc=ide-scsi)
THEN...the installer will report no media found" and will present thencurses/console based menu -- allowing manual loading of the SCSI
emulation
module: "ide-scsi". Select: "Kernel modules (hardware driver)" -> SCSI
->
select the ide-scsi module.
Press the *back* button, return to main menu and select:
Installation/Boot
-> Start Installation/Update -> CDROM


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