You might try using the pcmcia.dsk supplemental disk.  Do you get anything
useful from dmesg?  A quick search on google says some of the PCMCIA
cdroms are not supported.  Hopefully your's will work out for ya.

Oh, the supplemental disks are used after you use your boot and root
disks.  Good luck.

-Russ

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Steve King wrote:

> The drive is a PCMCIA drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Slackware install question
>
> On Thursday, February 12, 2004 09:46 am, Steve King wrote:
>
> > Trying to install Slackware to a laptop with an external CD-Rom Drive.
> > Cd boots, and basic configuration goes fine. When I get to the part
> that
> > asks about the source, it will not detect the cd / cd drive it just
> > booted from, and will not continue the install. Any ideas.
>
> The system can boot and read the boot portion of the CD through the BIOS
> (as a
> floppy drive, in fact).  It probably isn't loading USB drivers though,
> so
> you'll have to tell it to do so before you can mount the CD.  If it's a
> parallel port drive, you need the SCSI parallel port drivers.
>
> I'm not familiar with slackware, but can probably boot, load the
> drivers,
> mount the drive, then continue with the install.  You might also be able
> to
> pass the driver names and info required at the boot prompt, which should
>
> enable you to just run a normal install.
>
>
>