help to install blag on an old box

john maclean

A friend of mine has given me an old box to play with. I've tried to install both 9002 and 10k on it. Upon bootup the box seems to hang on `loading vmlinuz...`. Now i get disk error 80, AX = 4200, drive 9F`.

I think that it may be a hard drive error but it had win 98 installed on it previously. I checked that the box could install from a cd in the bios as the boot order is cdrom,a,c.

Suggestions appreciated to help revive this orphaned box.
(packard bell "club)

jebba · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:30 am Post subject:

John,

throw a whole bunch of specs at us--I know you know how to figure them out. Then lets google and get the new blag box online!

-Jeff

john maclean · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject:

Here is a url with all the specs:- http://www.easyinfo.co.za/htm/custom/necpackard/packardbell/machines/club_cl300xe.html

I have told all of my friends, family and wrok mates to give me their unwanted boxes. Would be gratefull if any one could outline the steps that they would do to rescue it. This is so that I can learn myself and do it for other orphan boxes and they could be blagged up. Not sure what to use them for though..... compiling kernels perhaps

jebba · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject:

Have you tried booting from floppy?

A quick search on that error seems to indicate problems loading up the CD. You've probably checked the media OK, ya?

If you have anaconda-runtime installed, you can check a CD thusly: