I'm not sure how much help this will be but I also had problems with the amazing vanishing CD drive when installing Windows alongside Linux. I used partition magic to set up my original Windows and Linux partitions before I did anything else with my computer. The Linux partitions have always been left untouched by my Windows installs and upgrades but I have had to reinstall boot magic each time (the same would probably be true of LILO it that is what you are using). I found the way to avoid the CD drive problem was to boot the computer from my previous Win95/98/98SE boot floppy, pick the CD drive option and then run setup from the CD drive. You can run setup several times and it seems to pick up from where it left off if there is a problem. Does this help in any way?
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Date: 2002-03-18 11:20 am (UTC)