d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter. anyway, i just installed potato on my girlfriend's perario. it's a piece-of-shit computer that i wouldn't force feed to my dog, but it's not SO evil that bios flashes when it sees linux. i find that VERY hard to believe; almost absurd. as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain. i assume you have windows on one hd and linux on another hd. why not just make them a mast/slave pair on the first IDE chain? my girlfriend's presario had a single hard drive on the first IDE chain and a DVD and floppy (yes, a floppy!) on the 2nd IDE chain. i've never seen a floppy with an IDE connector. wierd. anyway, the hd that came with the system was bolted onto the motherboard, but i was able to rip the ribbon cable out (which only had 2 connectors on it) and replace it with my own ribbon cable with the normal 3 connectors. from there, i connected it to the piece-of-garbage bolted on hd AND another 13GB hd that i gave to her. had to use an extra long IDE ribbbon cable because of the funky positioning of the bolted on hd. boy, everytime i open her computer, i always get the feeling that compaq didn't just put any thought into working on your computer. they specifically designed it to discourage you to! pete On Fri 15 Dec 00, 11:45 PM, D-Man said... > > 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 debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Just upgraded to Woody? Don't have permission to run X? linux In Xwrapper.config, change allowed_users from root to console. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ ._. To err is human, to forgive is divine. p@belial.ucdavis.edu /v\ To oink is porcine, to meow is feline. http://www.dirac.org/p // \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^^ ^^ GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D rules
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