Tommy Trussell wrote: < skipped >
I do not know PC hardware at all -- this drive that I'm trying to install the root partition onto is on the same IDE cable as the CD-ROM drive. Could that be a problem? I noticed the COMPAQ BIOS has three different timing settings for handling the CD-ROM drive but I don't know what any of them do so I left it at the default setting. Maybe there are some additional hardware tests I should run on the COMPAQ setup disks I downloaded from HP. I am just grasping at straws now...
Hmmm, I wouldn't connect a slow CD-ROM and a faster HDD on one IDE cable. Because the speed on a IDE cable is forced by the slowest part on it. But this shouldn't give you errors, it just slows down transfers to HDD. Bye Christian