As a sidenote here, my Presario laptop (1070) provides no method of creating these floppies. WHen I attempt it from the diagnostics program from the diag partition, it gives an error message that is unable to create them. I also tried to do so from Compaq's Windows-based diag app. .. very strange. On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
not realy in the mbr, compaq uses a "diagnostics partition". If you want to go into setup, you have to press F10 as soon as the little square appears in the top right corner of the screen. this causes the setup-part. to be accessed. it must be a bios routine, that does it. if you want to create a diagnostics partition, you need 2 (nowerdays 3) Disks. Of course, you can create these disks from an existing diagnostics partition or get them from compaq's ftp site.
If your disk is blows for some reason, this is very funraising, since you have to dig for (usually nonexisting) disks to boot setup from.
You can run a compaq *very well* without that diagnostics part. and it wont complain, unless you press F10 and be prompted for (usually nonexisting) disks. ;-))
-- ========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann mail: brauki@cityweb.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu| /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ==========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
--------------------------------------------------------------------- John Karns jkarns@ares.csd.net - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e