The BIOS for Compaq machines is a seperate partition. You'll have to blank out the drive so its got no partitions, install the SoftPaq, then reinstall your OS stuff, being careful not to wipe out the Compaq stuff.
Now you know why I'll never buy Compaq -- Not even if my life depends on it. :) On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Anthony Landreneau wrote: > Greetings, > Got a Compaq computer loaded with Linux. However I needed to do some > PCI > IRQ stuff and found out that the softpaq was gone. Downloaded the lastest > greatest softpaq from Compaq and have attempted to install but get an error > each and every time the program tries to write to the hard drive. Has > anyone had any luck with this? > > Thanks, > Anthony Landreneau > Network Administrator > Infinity Data Systems > New Orleans Louisiana > (504)455-8973 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
