[KLUG Members] win98 to kubuntu to win98

[Mark Bystry]

well, the 250mg partition is still there but I formatted it...oops. i found that this laptop is more 
trouble then it's worth. all that i am able to put on it is win98se. every other os 
chokes...win2000, winxp, suse 10, ubuntu breezy. i wanted to try damn small linux but ran out of 
patience.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 2/11/2006 9:34 AM:
>>>> 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.
> 
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