Stormix on a Compaq Pressario 305


Despite the claims on the website, Stormix is the only distribution I've been able to get to run on my new laptop.

After a visit to Linux World Expo in February, I came away with several different CD's of distributions:

These were all the free/download copies of the distributions.

I also had the following, from an unsuccessful attempt at installing it on a 486:

When I got the Compaq Pressario 305 I decided I'd try it out as a linux machine and started playing with it. I had the following mixed results:



The 305 has the following configuration

(thank you Jim McGovern for the list)

Adventures in Stormix-land

After installing Stormix successfully several times I'd like to give the following warning:

Have a boot disk available with your preferred flavor of fdisk on it. Somewhere between the FreeBSD and the Caldera installs, LiLo got hosed and died on LI, even after I'd reinstalled Stormix. I had to use "fdisk /mbr" to fix it. Nice to know IS194 (aka the morning nap) still comes in handy.

Step by step install (what worked, eventually)

More updates to come.

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