[KLUG Members] win98 to kubuntu to win98

[John Mathieson]

Mark Bystry wrote:

> 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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I have put DSL on a couple of laptops usually with no problem.  If it is 
an older laptop, you may need to use the syslinux version of the current 
release.  fwiw.