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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Daniel S. Kennedy" <SPIRITCHASERGREYWULF@YAHOO.COM>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: South Derby LUG General Mailing List <SDERBY@MAILMAN.LUG.ORG.UK>
<DIV></DIV>>To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: [Sderby] Re: Linux on a Packard Bell Pentium 125Mhz
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:12:45 +0000 (GMT)
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<DIV></DIV>>Heh, was his name Stewart?
<DIV></DIV>>If it was I went around to his house on friday to help him install Slack 9 (my copy) on a machine with that spec, but every time we tried to boot we got the 'Invalid system Disk' error msg.
<DIV></DIV>>Made a bootdisk for it using RaWrite, but that didn't help either.. I'm truly stumped on this one.
<DIV></DIV>>~Dani
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<DIV></DIV>>"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
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<DIV></DIV>>Lewis Carroll
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<P>Flash the motherboard? the ROM mite be skuppered<BR><BR>That can lead to boot errors, did you check the bios settings, and the IDE connectors (floppy too obiously)<BR><BR>Maybe the motherboards just had its day?<BR><BR>Onthe other hand, did packard bell earn a reputation for customising hardware so it was PB only, I seem to remember having to jimmy a new bios chip to my old old PB to get win98se to load</P>
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