Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-22 Thread Jeff Coppock
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:08:40PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2001 20:16, Roger Shaffer wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a > > dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard > > drive failed and, once it was replac

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-22 Thread Jeff Coppock
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:08:40PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2001 20:16, Roger Shaffer wrote: > > I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a > > dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard > > drive failed and, once it was repla

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 19 March 2001 20:16, Roger Shaffer wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a > dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard > drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it would be a perfect > opportunity to reclaim some disk

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 19 March 2001 20:16, Roger Shaffer wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a > dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard > drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it would be a perfect > opportunity to reclaim some disk

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Roger Shaffer
: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:20 -0600 > >I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a >dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard >

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Alexander Clouter
On 19 Mar 2001, Roger Shaffer wrote: > > So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a Compaq laptop? If so, > how did you overcome the partition issue? > have you been playing with that *evil* option LBA in the BIOS again? If so then nasty stuff starts to happen. Leave it either off or on, b

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread John Trainer
ebian-laptop@lists.debian.org >Subject: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:20 -0600 > >I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a >dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard >drive failed and, once it wa

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Roger Shaffer
EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:20 -0600 > >I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a >dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard >drive faile

Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Roger Shaffer
I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to reclaim some disk space and reinstall only Linux. Unfortunately, Compaq does s

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Alexander Clouter
On 19 Mar 2001, Roger Shaffer wrote: > > So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a Compaq laptop? If so, > how did you overcome the partition issue? > have you been playing with that *evil* option LBA in the BIOS again? If so then nasty stuff starts to happen. Leave it either off or on,

Re: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread John Trainer
IL PROTECTED] >Subject: Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives >Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:16:20 -0600 > >I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a >dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard >drive failed and, once it was replaced, I

Compaq Laptops and their Hard Drives

2001-03-19 Thread Roger Shaffer
I have a Compaq Presario 1640 laptop that happily ran Linux in a dual-boot situation for the last year and a half. Recently the hard drive failed and, once it was replaced, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to reclaim some disk space and reinstall only Linux. Unfortunately, Compaq does