Hi all, A newbie, wanting to install Suse 7.1 on a Compaq Armada 110 notebook.
The Suse install process would not shrink the 9.5GB hard disk despite; running SCANDISK & DEFRAG & no applications installed, just clean WinME. I tried to create a new smaller partition for msdos but msFDISK would not run. So I installed Suse 7.1 creating a partition system under "expert" mode leaving room - starting cylinder 1 - for winME with success. However when I later installed winME, it overwrote the whole 9.5GB. Repeating the above process, two 400MB partitions were allocated to msdos and labelled, followed by a Linux multi partition system. Suse was again installed - OK - but unfortunately, I put lilo on the MBR and winME would not reinstall. It hung with the A/:> prompt. I tried to format drives C & D with msFDISK. Drive D: was successfully formated but I could not format drive C: /s and winME would not reinstall. Tried c:\mbr & then lolo -u| but still no. I found out about the ms command LOCK C: but a drive C is recognised and the usual message appeas but will not proceed with the formstting. Though I do have Suse installed & running from a boot disk, there are are two problems still to solve. 1. I can only configure the video for 8 bit 640x480 which is unsatisfactory. It seems the Armada hardware iis newer than Suse 7.1. .......and........ If I found the website with the necessary newer files, I would not know what I was looking for nor what to do with them. 2. Though I could now manage without msWin, It seems I might need to install same to properly support the Compaq power management system. and also - Compaq tech support might again take me seriously when I there may be other reasons to phone them. I just don't know what to do now and some guidance would be appreciated. Boris Murphy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
