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
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
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
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. :)
') partitions.
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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
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