Re: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-20 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote: The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the Compaq stuff. Now you know why I'll never buy Compaq

Re: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: : On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Alec Smith wrote: : : The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank : out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then : reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the

Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Got a Compaq computer loaded with Linux. However I needed to do some PCI IRQ stuff and found out that the softpaq was gone. Downloaded the lastest greatest softpaq from Compaq and have attempted to install but get an error each and every time the program tries to write to the

Re: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread Alec Smith
The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the Compaq stuff. Now you know why I'll never buy Compaq -- Not even if my life depends on it. :)

FW: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux

1999-04-19 Thread simonst
') partitions. -- From: Anthony Landreneau To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Compaq Qoftpaq After Linux Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 10:56AM Greetings, Got a Compaq computer loaded with Linux. However I needed to do some PCI IRQ stuff and found out that the softpaq