Date:        Fri, 14 Dec 2001 06:57:58 -0800 (PST)
    From:        "-P.Chase" <paypachase@collegeclub.com>
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  | and if so will the system be able to recognize the cd player after
  | it is installed?

If the boot floppies can't see it, then most probably nor will an
installed kernel (they're not that different for most purposes).

I came across a system just like this - also an oldish pentium, where
the CD was simply invisible ...

The solution was to stick it on the secondary IDE controller, rather
than as slave to the master drive on the primary controller.   For whatever
reason, the drive and the CD simply wouldn't co-operate on the same cable.

The same was true under wintrash as well I think - but wintrash had been
zapped from the system by all the newfs's that sysinst does before it
attempts to start reading the install sets.

As Martin Weber said though, this is just a guess...

kre