I have had RH9 on my Compaq 1700T for almost 4 years. I first used Ranish's partition manager and then the Partition Magic. The only problems I had was with the backup section that Compaq has - I left it alone, except for shrinking it and pushing to to the very end of the drive, and I had to build a little breakout area for the boot to keep the boot within the 1024 cyl area. I had a 3 year warrenty and had problems with the display board and because of all the shipping around or something they crashed the drive and I got a new one. (20gb) I have been living with W98SE and the RH6x and then RH9. The newer Partition Magic handles all the newer types of drive areas - ext3 and all. I do have to keep the vfat and no server or NTFS set up for when I change to XP. The newer systems I believe can handle more of these combos. If you have a big enough drive or can add external ones, you can do most anything and the warrenty is not going to be messed up. I have listened to IBM, HP, Compaq (when still on their own) talk about Linux on their systems and at the same time another group within the company will say nooo you can't do that. It depends on who you talk to at the company. The right hand frequently doesn't know what the left hand is doing. You have to search for the right groups and people. Also, there are the Linux groups on the net which have instructions for these type things. I have seen some info on the XP problems and ways to fix those or work arounds. Leep looking up, Tim Sinks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Fuchs" <kfuchs at winternet.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop > Dan Lansing wrote: > > >One thing to keep in mind on this, I had a friend who purchased a compaq > >-----Original Message----- > >From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > >[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Olwe Melwasul > >Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:56 PM > >To: TCLUG Mailing List > >Subject: [TCLUG] Linux on Laptop > > > > > >I have a new Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and I'd like to put Fedora 2 on > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list