> > It depends.
>
> > I've got a little Sony VAIO 505fx that will boot off a pcmcia
> > IDE cdrom.
>
> But, to back up one side of the argument, you can't do a regular
> install from it on the Sony, it takes ide2 ioport arguments on the
> kernel command line to make it work.
Why is that a problem? Do you mean to tell us that there are bootable
Linux install CDs that *don't* give you the option to specify kernel
parameters?
MfG Kai
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