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* Re:       making cd-roms work
@  Andy Lyons
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From: Andy Lyons @  UTC (permalink / raw)
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I have an external cd-rom drive which I want to attach to my toshiba 
laptop through the parallel port.
What do I need to do to make this work?
I can't even get it working with DOS, is there any reason that you 
could think of for that?

I guess the drivers could be written for windows only couldn't they? 
But it doesn't look like it from what I can tell.

I have two floppy diskettes one has cd-rom drivers on it, the other 
is something called a Magic-eye converter, for enabling the parallel 
port I am told.

I need the cd-rom operational so that I can install Linux from it, I 
don't have WWW access yet you see so cannot download it from anywhere.
When I do get it installed, how do I learn emacs?  And how do I get 
hold of Emacspeak?  It don't suppose it comes on the cd's does it?

Thanks heaps for any help you can supply!


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