[KLUG Members] win98 to kubuntu to win98

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 08:05 -0500, John Bridleman wrote:
> * Mark Bystry (mabystry at verizon.net) wrote:
> > i was little confused last night because the laptop that i'm working
> on is an older compaq armada 
> > 100s and it has 250mb primary partition and a the rest is on an ext.
> partition. this is standard 
> > practice on most compaqs. i tried getting rid of the 250mb restore
> partition completely and couldn't.
> 
> If I remember correctly, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong,
> the Compaq's keep that small partition for utilities like accessing
> the BIOS.

That is correct. You WANT that partition there, or you won't be able to
do much of anything with the system configuration. I had to put one on
the drive in mine before I could even start to get Linux in there.

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Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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