[Gllug] Compaq Compatability

[will]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Fri 04 Oct, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:
> 
> 
>>>   I have started playing with an old Compaq which uses the first few
>>> sectors of the HDD as a sort of BIOS. 
>>
> 
>    It is a Deskpro XE 450 (486DX2), the original HDD was tiny, so I loaded
> Debian onto a larger disc, but looked up the information on the Compaq web
> site when it failed to re-boot from the HDD.

I have a Compaq Deskpro 575 (P90 I think) and it came with a 600Mb HD so I put 
in a 3Gig and completely failed to get linux to boot off it :-)  I did a network 
install of freeBSD and it worked fine, it was my main development server for months.

Will.


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