[Gllug] Compaq Compatability
Chris Bell
chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Fri Oct 4 18:39:27 UTC 2002
On Fri 04 Oct, Richard Hall wrote:
>
> I am thinking of buying some Compaq Evo Desktop D510 Space saver systems
> for our new Phd. Students. Some of these people will want to run linux
> on them (hopefully all of them but I doubt it). Has anyone had any
> good or bad experiences with these systems under Linux or windows?
>
> Cheers
> Rich
>
I have started playing with an old Compaq which uses the first few
sectors of the HDD as a sort of BIOS. The computer throws up errors if they
are not there, but will boot from a Linux floppy. There is a file on the
Compaq website which can be copied to floppy and will write a basic
(obsolete) version to a new HDD, and another file which will update it.
There seemed to be other facilities available for different Compaq models.
I think that some Dell computers may use a similar system.
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Chris Bell
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