[PLUG] Hardware Recommendation needed

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

I have been trying to set up a dual boot system at home with windows 9x and 
Red Hat 7.2.  Despite a lot of off list help from people on this list, I 
have not had any success installing RH 7.2 from the hard drive.

The machine currently has windows installed and no version of linux.  Seems 
I can't do a hard drive install from an msdos partition.  One way around 
this is to copy the CDs as ISO images (as opposed to copying their 
contents) to the msdos partition, but I haven't figured out a way to do 
this with dos/windows tools.

This leads to the question -- why not just install from the cdrom?  Well 
the cdrom on this computer is an external with a scsi adapter that plugs 
into the parallel port (Adaptec mini-scsi).  The RH 7.2 install program 
does not recognize this set up. (I don't know if it will be recognized once 
fully installed.)

The computer case has no more room for a cdrom.  However, seems like I have 
4 open IDE slots (one on the mother board, and three on a Promise ATA/100 
card).

I was thinking about getting an external case that can house the cdrom and 
supply power, and just running an IDE cable out the back of the computer, 
and into this cdrom case.

Any ideas on the availability of such a case?  Any ideas for better solutions?

tia

Art


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