Re: [newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:02:19PM -0700, Jason Riker wrote: Todd, I've had success installing Mandrake on both the Presario 710 and 2110. The only problem I had was ACPI and MDK10 has corrected that nicely, although Fedora has slightly better ACPI support (fans respond more to system) for

[newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-10 Thread Todd Slater
My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a create overlay failed error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. I suggested installing Mandrake