[KLUG Members] win98 to kubuntu to win98

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > 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.

Yep, if you have a Compaq with a 'hidden' partition you'd best not mess
with it.  Makes replacing a failed hard drives tons of fun.  I guess
they didn't want to pay the $1.75 extra a machine to put this code in an
EPROM.  And why is it 250Mb?  It seems to get bigger with later models
but doesn't really do anything more...  I suppose you'd need a bank of
EPROMS to get 256Mb.