I am trying to install Centos on my old Portege 2490CT. Actually a
pretty good box, but it does not support USB booting. Only HDD, FDD
(interestingly a USB device), 'CD-Rom', or LAN.
The only CDroms I have is a nice USB drive and an old PCMCIA toshiba
NW24XCD drive.
I have not gotten this system to boot off of my USB CDrom. It will
boot of the NW24XCD.
So I put the CentOS disk 1 in the drive and boot. Boot seems to go
OK, it asks my the language preferences but then gives me the dialog:
What type of Media contains the packages to be installed?
When I select CDrom I get the dialog:
Unable to find may devices of the type neededfor this installation
type. Would you like to manually select your driver or use a driver disk?
And there is a list of a bunch of drivers.
I have a hunch that my PCMCIA NW24XCD is not a standard supported drive. :(
So what from the list do I select? Or where do I get a driver disk?
POI: I am not a Unix skilled person. I can get by with VI and the
like, but otherwises I just have not devoted the time needed...
HELP?
