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Re: Can't install Linux on my new Compaq Presario-HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kluge)
Mon Feb 19 08:18:38 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 20:58:07 -0500 (EST)
From: kluge <kluge@hackerz.org>
To: Eugene <eugenebienvenue@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-alert@redhat.com
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Go grab a Slackware .iso and burn it...then boot off it.
/<
(incidentally, an ex-Compaq tech support eng. ;-)
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Eugene wrote:
> In as much as I can't find a support page or email contact for us poor shmos that want desperately to install Linux, but who are unable to, I've taken the liberty of writing here.
> I have a Compaq 7PL287, running Windows ME, and have tried installing Linux RedHat and Mandrake for the last 1 1/2 months, with equal success-none to be exact.
> When attempting to install RedHat, the installation proceeds to: running /sbin/loader, and then freezes there and nothing else happens!
> I've tried everything I can think of: I installed Windows 98, thinking that it might be a ME problem. No dice. I've tried various .img files, all with the same result.
> I hope that someone has some kind of idea for this thing. I suspect that you know who has made it such that a Linux install is impossible with this computer. If this is so, then the future of the Linux OS is at stake. If not, I would appreciate some sort of help here. My best friend is very Linux literate, and is at his wits end on this thing. He, by the way, has a smaller and slightly earlier version of my computer, and has had a dual boot thing going for over a year.
> I mean, I'd be very happy to stick it to Gates and co., especially after they seem to have misplaced DOS ("We feel that consumers no longer need DOS" -a Compaq representative). My only fear is that he's stuck it to me first.
> PLEASE HELP!
>
> ~Eugene Bienvenue
>
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