You mean you got the official message that Compaq does not support the installation of
linux on that system.
Since you have the box already, it's certainly worth a shot. It may take a little bit
more work, or a little more indepth searching to find the correct drivers for the
components.
You may have to supercede the compaq boot partition (30mb dos partition at the
beginning of the disk) (if there is one, as on servers). If it requires monkeying
with it, certainly Compaq isn't going to spend their time and walk you through it on
the phone.
Some Compaqs don't have a user editable cmos, instead they have this boot partition
with system utilities to configure it. If you have to go around this partition to get
linux installed, perhaps you can have lilo configured to boot to either partition.
I'd suggest inventoring all the hardware components and making sure there are linux
drivers available for each piece. This will save time. For instance, you may have a
compaq scsi controller that wasn't manufactured by adaptec or such, and doesn't have a
driver. In this scenario, you may just have to get another video or scsi card, etc
and not use the built in one.
Cory
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 11:31:40AM -0800, Tim wrote:
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> Planning to install this machine with Linux. Just got the
> response from support at Compaq that this model is not
> Linux-comaptible.
> Anything else I can do to make my machine run with Linux?
