lnx4win on Compaq

[wwoof]

I have tried unsucessfully to get any results on my 7470. I have used a boot floppy with the cdrom in place and only get the copywrite tag line and a blinking cursor. Nothing else happens, no matter how much I pound on the keyboard. Mandrake email support has only suggested I check the bios. I can't seem to get to it!

Is the Compag just not compatible with any Linux? Am I waisting my time with this particular box?

[Golden_Eternity]

I had redhat on my compaq 7935 for a while, I ran into trouble setting up x to work with the monitor, but that was about it...

Who needs X anyway? ;)

[bdg1983]

I have Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 installed on a old Compaq laptop, Compaq Deskpro's P166, PIII-550 and PIII-650 and also a couple of Presario's. Never really had a problem.

Most older Compaq's use the F10 key to access the BIOS (system partition) when the cursor flashes in the top-right corner.

Do you have a system partition on your drive? It's usually anywhere from 10-30MB and specified as a non-dos partition in fdisk.

Check your manual or lookup your Compaq model at their support site.

[wwoof]

Thanks, MD, I'll try the F10 trick shortly. I am concerned that the 7470, being a budget model with integrated graphics and sound, will not work.

[wwoof]

EUREKA!! F10 was the trick. I checked it out and it was set correctly to boot from CD, yet it wasn't doing it. Then, on a second try, I went back in and selected "set defaults and save"/F10. I did that and saw TUX in about 15 seconds!! I then went into the graphical setup, which took forever and stalled at "post install config". I rebooted and it came back up fresh and I selected text. This time the install took 1/3 the time and I will be immersed in trying to configure the network and everything else.

[bdg1983]

Glad to hear it worked. Enjoy...

[Kyoshi]

Speaking of lnx4win on Compaq, how the hell do you get it off your drive? I got Linux Mandrake 7.2 and installed it with lnx4win, but it turned out I can't make it work with my doggone Lucent Winmodem, and now I can't get rid of the Linux shell within Windoze, because GRUB replaced one of the W98 boot files with itself. ANYBODY, HELP??! Please! I stayed up all night trying to figure this out, and here I am, still awake at past noon the following day. My wife is quite upset, and she should be! It was silly of me to even attempt a dual boot under w98. Kids, DON'T try this at home.

[bdg1983]

dos/win bootdisk that contains fdisk.

fdisk /mbr