On 30 Jul 2002, at 12:25, Freeman Mendell wrote:

> It is happening during setup of NT 4.0. NT setup disks ask for the
> CD, but when it tries to read the CD, it cannot read. The bios has
> a setting fro booting from the CD. If I do that, the boot attempt
> fails. It is like the machine cannot  read a CD drive. I was
> wondering if there is a BIOS setting that I missed.
>
> Barry Keith Tyler wrote:
>
> > You may need a driver installed for the OS to recognize the CD-ROM
> > as a usable drive.


  What controller is the CD-ROM drive connected to?  The NT install
natively supports only a small selection of 1996-vintage vanilla
storage controllers -- anything else, and you need to supply a driver
diskette between diskettes 2 and 3 of the install in order to be able
to access the CD to complete the process.

David Gillett

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