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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > BTW, you should consider downloading the Compaq CMOS setup
> > floppy (F10 Setup).  It has some settings you may wish to
> > experiment with.
>
> Do I need it in order to add an IDE drive to the SCSI computer?  Or to
> boot linux on it? I will look for it.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Steven

The setup and diagnostics for Compaq are loaded in a non-DOS partition at 
the beginning of the drive and can be accessed with F10 while booting, if 
you have the original drive (we have it in the Deskpro).  The floppy setup 
appears to be the same thing, intended for those of us who were given the 
computer without the hard drive (the Presario).  Our other Presario did 
not need the floppy disk to recognize our IDE drive.  The Deskpro said to 
use it when we tried putting in an IDE drive, but that might be only if we 
want to boot IDE instead of SCSI.

I wonder why the CMOS settings are on hard disk or floppy disk in Compaqs 
instead of on the motherboard.

First LILO on the Deskpro, probably easier than the ATI X driver and 
fiddling around with libvga.config.

Sindi