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I remember having to use the diskettes on Compaqs due to the weird partition the bios creates...
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Compaq Presario 5522
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Caluser2000
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You don't HAVE to. I am certainly not in my 5522 testing and wont. The system happily detects hardware changes WITHIN its BIOSs hardware support criteria. My old dear departed CDS425 was exactly the same.
My CDS525 ran Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Mandrake 6.1(which was ment to be for i586 and up cpus) It help me understand the underpinning of our Linux functioned more. I set up SMB shares and was sharing a PPP connection with my IBM PC300GL mini tower with Cellery 400 via 10Base 2 cabling.
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Caluser2000
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Did a bit of maintanace, cleaning and adjusted the crt image so the who screen is used. When they sold these they must have been fucking lazy. My old CDS524 was the same. Just pulled the back cover off with a bit of wood under lifting it about an inch off the bench( this makes it easier to get the back off) and ajusted the pots to my liking 
. The ones I've mark in felt above thim adjust the screen size. Also pulled the 200MMX cpu and fitted a 166MMX ceramic cpu, heat sink and fan,
. The ones I've mark in felt above thim adjust the screen size. Also pulled the 200MMX cpu and fitted a 166MMX ceramic cpu, heat sink and fan,
Caluser2000
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Put same fresh rubber pads on the bottom of the old dear for better air circulation.
Caluser2000
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Naked but not afraid
Caluser2000
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Just a wee reminder that Linux/GNU variations/distros and just extensions of three main Linux/GNU types- Debian(deb based), Red Hat(rpm based) and sourced based.
Not hard to comprehend at all...
Not hard to comprehend at all...
Caluser2000
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Just been testing a few more Linux Distros but it appears the 6gig BigFoot hard drive has finally given up due to all the abuse it has had over the last couple of weeks.
Debian based Distros gave error messages but noting specific when it got the partitioning the setup and you just go around in a loop tying to sort it out. I was booting these CDs/DVDs from the Plop boot loader floppy.
Most of the sourced based Distro just kicked me out to the command prompt shell using Plop bot loader floppy to boot. I had the Slackware 3.5 boot floppys handy so replaced Plod with its boot disks. All went fine up to the installation menu. I exited the menu and ran cfdisk. Finally!! It gave me a primary partition error.
Pulled out all the stops and tried the following:
IBM Dos 6.3 boot floppy- fail
MS Dos 6.33 boot floppy-fail
MS Dos 5 boot floppy-f ail
China Dos Union MS Dos 7.1 boot disk- fail
OS/2 v3 Red Spine boot floppy-fail
OS/2 V3 Blue Spine boot floppy- fail
Partition Magic boot floppy-fail
Using most Linux boot floppys just locked up trying to access the CD/DVDs at the SYSLINUX notice.
The Plop boot disk booted up to its menu every time without fail so it is not the fdd that is at fault.
Is the BigFoot hard drive really stuffed or can it be sorted out.....?
Stay tuned for the next installment
Debian based Distros gave error messages but noting specific when it got the partitioning the setup and you just go around in a loop tying to sort it out. I was booting these CDs/DVDs from the Plop boot loader floppy.
Most of the sourced based Distro just kicked me out to the command prompt shell using Plop bot loader floppy to boot. I had the Slackware 3.5 boot floppys handy so replaced Plod with its boot disks. All went fine up to the installation menu. I exited the menu and ran cfdisk. Finally!! It gave me a primary partition error.
Pulled out all the stops and tried the following:
IBM Dos 6.3 boot floppy- fail
MS Dos 6.33 boot floppy-fail
MS Dos 5 boot floppy-f ail
China Dos Union MS Dos 7.1 boot disk- fail
OS/2 v3 Red Spine boot floppy-fail
OS/2 V3 Blue Spine boot floppy- fail
Partition Magic boot floppy-fail
Using most Linux boot floppys just locked up trying to access the CD/DVDs at the SYSLINUX notice.
The Plop boot disk booted up to its menu every time without fail so it is not the fdd that is at fault.
Is the BigFoot hard drive really stuffed or can it be sorted out.....?
Stay tuned for the next installment
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Caluser2000
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Went inside the house had brekky then toodled of on my half hour morning walk...
When I got back home I revisited the issue I had with the BigFoot hdd. Decided to give Red Hat 6 booting from the Plop boot loader disk. Booted the RH 6 cd up, chose the guided install routine, answered the usual half dozen questions and it happily created a EXT partition, formatted it with fresh partition table and mbr. When that was done installed RH 6 as if nothing ever happened
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When I got back home I revisited the issue I had with the BigFoot hdd. Decided to give Red Hat 6 booting from the Plop boot loader disk. Booted the RH 6 cd up, chose the guided install routine, answered the usual half dozen questions and it happily created a EXT partition, formatted it with fresh partition table and mbr. When that was done installed RH 6 as if nothing ever happened
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Any chance you could upload a copy of your Compaq quick restore CD to archive.org or elsewhere? I've recently acquired a 5522 but all the copies on archive.org do not work for the 5522. The CDS versions produce an error saying this computer is not supported. And the 5500-9500 version detects it is a 5522 based on the serial number, but then asks for another CD with part number 185505-001
Caluser2000
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The wife of 24 years buggered off taking her idiot bludging brother with her so life has improved 100%. Nothing but 6 years of bull shit in our lives since he moved in...
So now I have plenty of space in the house and moved the 5522 from the garage into the conservatory. I'm in heaven at last!!. Found the optical drive and hard drive cage after a few hours searching. Found it in the plastic bin I keep bits in for spare parts/projects before having a clean out after they'd both left two weeks ago.
Also purchased quite a bit of older x86 and Mac PPCs as well as x86 stuff recently as well and the odd bit of software.
So stay tuned for more insights on this beasty including other MS Windows installations(via boot floppies of course because NT based Windows does not boot from the Plop boot loader for some odd reason. Nor did any of the BSDs). MS Windows ME runs terrificly so will keep some spinning rust with that installed as a comparison
Nothing but 6 years of bull shit in our lives since he moved in...So now I have plenty of space in the house and moved the 5522 from the garage into the conservatory. I'm in heaven at last!!. Found the optical drive and hard drive cage after a few hours searching. Found it in the plastic bin I keep bits in for spare parts/projects before having a clean out after they'd both left two weeks ago.
Also purchased quite a bit of older x86 and Mac PPCs as well as x86 stuff recently as well and the odd bit of software.
So stay tuned for more insights on this beasty including other MS Windows installations(via boot floppies of course because NT based Windows does not boot from the Plop boot loader for some odd reason. Nor did any of the BSDs). MS Windows ME runs terrificly so will keep some spinning rust with that installed as a comparison