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no-install-cdrom: remove FAQ about IDE drives

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I have not seen an IDE drive in many years on a new system.
If we want to keep this information it should be be documented
in a better place than a long list of questions that
users tend not to read.
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Eitan Adler 2017-12-12 07:13:26 +00:00
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</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question xml:id="no-install-cdrom">
<para>I booted from a CD, but the install program
says no CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured
CD-ROM drive. Many PCs now ship with the CD-ROM as the
slave device on the secondary IDE controller, with no
master device on that controller. This is illegal
according to the ATAPI specification, but &windows; plays
fast and loose with the specification, and the BIOS
ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to
see the CD-ROM to boot from it, but why &os; cannot see it
to complete the install.</para>
<para>Reconfigure the system so that the CD-ROM is either
the master device on the IDE controller it is attached to,
or make sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller
that also has a master device.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question xml:id="need-complete-sources">
<para>Do I need to install the source?</para>