Had a guy recently bought a new Dell desktop,came with ME.He told me he wanted to upgrade to 98SE,I said sure,wipe the drive and go.Turns out there was a propritary overlay software that rendered the disk unusable; This too would play havoc with an attempted Linux install,finally Dell tech gave him a debug script to return the drive to OEM.I asked him for it for future reference,can't verify what he gave me is absolutly correct,but for those interested. --- Debug F 200 L1000 0 A C5: 100 Mov AX, 301 Mov BX, 200 Mov CX, 1 Mov DX, 80 INT 13 INT 20 [enter] G
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jeff Mings wrote: > Warren, > I really like the direction of your review. Specifically, it addressed > two > of the things that most reviews omit- graphic performance under Linux, and > the "installability" factor. E.g., I recently purchased two HP Athlons for a > restaurant corporation that I work for. They didn't even have the > often-deplorable recovery disk - just hidden recovery partitions. Installing > Linux in an optimized fashion as part of a dual boot system would be rather > complicated, but finding this out before purchase isn't easy. > > Keep up the great work, > -Jeff > > > > On Tuesday 09 July 2002 01:19 am, you wrote: > > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/~warren/presario/presario.php > > > > Hey folks, > > > > At that URL is my review of the Compaq Presario 722US laptop computer that > > will soon be posted to AMDMB.com. In my testing I have found this to be an > > excellent priced laptop with tons of features that work nearly perfectly in > > Linux after some tweaking. Here are some of its better features: > [snip] > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
