Hey All, Thanks for all your great advice. I played with trying to run just Linux on the machine, but depending on which flavor of Debian I used (2.2, Progeny, Libranet) it sometimes would and sometimes wouldn't have trouble with the Compaq partition. Since I didn't want to risk screwing up the installation and my data if I upgraded or changed distributions I decided to go ahead and do the dual-boot thing. Besides it provides a nice comparison when people don't believe that the Linux GUI is that much faster.
Thanks again, Rog On 22 Mar 2001 12:00:05 -0800, ian mckerrow wrote: > I have a couple of compaq armadas that had the > original bios partition. In fact, the dignostic > partition is not needed at all. I totally formatted > the HDD to remove it and then installed Linux. No > problems. I have a second HDD which I also formatted > and then installed windows followed by Linux. Again, > no problems. The bios features (indeed a whole range > of on board hardware upgrades) for your laptop can be > upgraded with compaq softpaqs and the dignostic > partion can also be recreated with a softpaq. Go to > compaqs website for info and downloads. > > Yours, Ian > > > 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 some wierd proprietary > > partitioning things to > > the hard drive and BIOS so that any installation of > > just Linux leaves me > > with a working copy that will give all sorts of > > write past sector and > > data corruption errors. Compaq is less than > > forthcoming about how to > > overcome this. > > > > So, has anyone had success installing Linux on a > > Compaq laptop? If so, > > how did you overcome the partition issue? > > > > Thanks, > > Roger Shaffer Jr. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
