Re: [aclug-L] My laptop won't boot an install disk.

["Cory T. Lamb" <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

here are the specs on the laptop:
Compaq Contura 420c
540 MB HDD
24 MB RAM
486 DX 75
WD9504 video card

anything else?
Thanks for the help.
~Cory

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                            Cory T. Lamb                                
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Junior SysAdmin                                   Chief Engineer
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On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Bob Deep wrote:

> "Cory T. Lamb" wrote:
> > 
> > I just got a laptop and it doesn't seem to want to boot it will show me
> > the welcome screen... Then boot: at the bottom...  Then when I press enter
> > to have it boot it only gets three dots before it blows chunks and tells
> > me that boot has failed.  I have tried 5 different Distrobutions each with
> > several different floppy disks and nothing seems to work.  Is there any
> > possible solution to get linux on my box?
> 
> I don't know that it will help... But what kind of laptop (make and
> model) do you have?
> 
> It *should* work, but we may need to build a special kernel for you for
> your hardware.  Perhaps there are some differant boot images you could
> try on the distro's you now have?
> 
> -= bob =-
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