On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:14:50PM +1100, Steve Downing wrote: > I can remember, some of the older ones (like your?) possibly put > parts of the BIOS on this partition, and therefore wiping it IS BAD!
The "diag" partition is for doing things like disk and memory diags, bios updates, changing bios settings, etc. It's not ESSENTIAL, but it can be good when diagnosing problems... There is a Compaq-provided doco on installing Linux on these boxen - I'll post the URL when I can dig it up. Jon -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
