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Prof. Mladen Pavicic wrote:
>
> I tried all combinations: hdb, hdc, .. sda, .... 

Did you do the following first?
-------------
insmod cdrom 
insmod ide-cd
insmod isofs
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> It worked under Win95 (now dismantled - 
> The machine does not see the cdroom while booting 
> either and I had to use a special program on a 
> floppy which made the machine see the cdrom 

It is possible that the CDrom drive is not IDE.

There are different Slackware kernels available 
for non-IDE CDroms.
-------------------+----------------+
 SCSI CD-ROM       | Use a SCSI     |
                   | controller     |
-------------------+----------------+
 Aztech, Orchid,   | aztech kernel  |
 Okano, Wearnes,   |                |
 Conrad, CyCDROM   |                |
 non-IDE CD-ROM    |                |
-------------------+----------------+
 Sony CDU31a,      | cdu31a kernel  |
 Sony CDU33a CD-ROM|                |
-------------------+----------------+
 Sony CDU531,      | cdu535 kernel  | 
 Sony CDU535 CD-ROM|                | 
-------------------+----------------+
 Philips/LMS cm206 | cm206 kernel   |
 CD-ROM            |                |
-------------------+----------------+
 Goldstar R420     | goldstar       | 
 CD-ROM            | kernel         | 
-------------------+----------------+
 Mitsumi non-IDE   | mcdx kernel    |
 CD-ROM            | mcd kernel     |
-------------------+----------------+
 Optics Storage    | optics kernel  |
 8000 AT CD-ROM    |                |
 ("Dolphin")       |                |
-------------------+----------------+
 Sanyo CDR-H94A    | sanyo kernel   |
 CD-ROM            |                |
-------------------+----------------+
 Matsushita,       | sbpcd kernel   |
 Kotobuki,         |                |
 Panasonic,        |                |
 CreativeLabs      |                |
 (Sound Blaster),  |                |
 Longshine and     |                |
 Teac non-IDE      |                |
 CD-ROM            |                |
-------------------+----------------+

Cheers,
Steven