Do you know if Compaq is still putting part of the BIOS on the MBR
portion of the harddrive? Is your Windows still working?
Seve
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On 7/22/00, 4:10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) wrote
regarding [newbie] Install help:
> I have a Compaq Presario AMD 533 Mhz with 128mb Ram and 20 Gig. HD.
> model number is 7479. I am having great troubles getting Linux 7.0 to
> install
> on this machine. I had to format it twice because all I got when I
rebooted
> was
> zero's and one's filling up the screen. I tried to boot off of the disk
and
> then to
> the CD but I can not get pass the disk they gave me. I tried to make my
own
> disk as the instruction told me but the program that makes the disk did
not
> work, give me an error not sure what just now.
> I have gave up trying sometime ago but now I find I still would love to
have
> it on my machine. It has to be duel boot because I need to run WIn/98 as
> well. They say not to boot right to the disk (which I can do), I am not
sure
> why but maybe I should try that. I friend told me that my hard drive was
to
> big but I could not understand that being the problem.
> Any help would be GREAT!
> Thanks for you time and effort in the matter for me
> Regards
> Stephen L
