I have a compaq Presario 1700. Have a dual boot system of win98/Debian woody, but have to admit that while red hat installed and ran beutifuully on it, it was much harder to install potato on it. (because i had to figure out how to configure everything which was hard but did help me learn) but now that i have debian woody on it, i have no problems you have two hard disks on your laptop? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:45:23 -0500 > From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian > > Inform Compaq that M$ isn't the only OS vendor. :-) > > I have a Compaq Presario (don't get one, it's better to build your own comp from > parts) that came with Windows 98 preinstalled. I added RedHat to it (first 5.2 > - didn't like my video card, then 6.1 , now 7.0 ). I am planning on installing > Debian Potato early next week. > > I wonder why your BIOS got flashed. You probably should have installed a better > BIOS ;-). My BIOS can't boot from the second IDE bus, thus I can't use LILO and > must first boot DOS and run loadlin. > > -D > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:51:09 Tom Schuetz wrote: > | I had Red Hat installed on my Presario as a dual boot system. It had its own > | hard drive, and worked somewhat, but eventually it flashed the BIOS and the > | whole motherboard had to be replaced. > | > | I was told (tersely) by Compaq Support that Presarios are NOT GOOD with > | Linux. > | > | But, I WANT LINUX. Namely, I want Debian. Anybody know about Presarios and > | Debian? > | > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
