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Re: Can't install Linux on my new Compaq Presario-HELP!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Uphoff)
Mon Feb 19 11:07:01 2001

From: Jeff Uphoff <juphoff@transmeta.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:31:05 -0500 (EST)
To: <linux-alert@redhat.com@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-alert-owner@redhat.com, linux-alert-admin@redhat.com,
	Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>, rogier@cave.et.tudelft.nl
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, February 15, 2001 13:48:41 -0500
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"E" == Eugene  <eugenebienvenue@hotmail.com> writes:

E> In as much as I can't find a support page or email contact for us
E> poor shmos that want desperately to install Linux, but who are unable
E> to, I've taken the liberty of writing here.  I have a Compaq 7PL287,
E> running Windows ME, and have tried installing Linux RedHat and
E> Mandrake for the last 1 1/2 months, with equal success-none to be
E> exact.  When attempting to install RedHat, the installation proceeds
E> to: running /sbin/loader, and then freezes there and nothing else
E> happens!
E> [...more installation woes...]

Why the hell is this on linux-alert?!?

This list is for announcements of important, time-critical security
vulnerabilities.

Did moderation somehow get turned off again?  (I can't imagine this post
receiving moderator approval.)

--Up.

-- 
Jeffrey A. Uphoff, Transmeta Corporation
Charlottesville, Virginia & Santa Clara, California



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