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Most of my problems was with RedHat on a COMPAQ box
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Russell Horn wrote:
> > I'm still fighting with this shitty Compaq Deskpro XL 590 I got. Upgraded
> > the bios, downloaded the system config utility to access the bios (a
> > horribly designed program), installed an ide cd-rom which the bios claims
> > was detected. There is no way to boot from the cd-rom so okay I put a
> > boot floppy with the install image on it in. Loads okay, detects the
> > cd-rom drive (known to be working), then just throws shit loads of drive
> > access errors and won't access the cd. What a pain. May try a network
> > install (if it's built-in ethernet port will work).
>
> I'm new to the list so haven't been keeping up with this thread sorry.
>
> I bave had Linux running on a Deskpro (Eridani Linux www.eridani.co.uk)
> which is similar to RedHat 6.2. What distro are you using? My experience is
> that RedHat is definitely the distro that gets on best with Compaq machines.
>
> Have you worked through the Linux Compaq Deskpro howto?
>
> Russell.
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