[RESOLVED] help! packard bell

[professorplum]

i have an old packard bell 133 and the drivers for the A floppy) and D cd-rom) are both missing, i.e.- neither of the two work. my overall goal is to wipe the hard-drive and put linux on the machine, I NEED HELP! please help me, thanks.
- kyle

[techs]

The floppy doesn't need a driver. If it is set up in the bos correctly and doesn't work replace it.

[Harry_W]

Pac Bell is now NEC
The reason I don't like 'brand' name machines is the proprietary nature of the hardware and going to the original mfg you find Pac Bell and other have exclusives made.

An older 486 with a bigger drive (>1 Gig) should do it- that's what I'm doing with some unsellable 486's I have

Motherboards that are all-in-one you have to get the chip numbers to trace the drivers.

Give yourself 40 hours over 1 month - any longer try another route.

Make it fun not a headache

[DesertEagle]

Packard bell used Panasonic drives I believe. Linux will detect the CDROM as a IDE drive unless it is hooked to the sound card. I have a PB with Linux and I had no probs setting it up cept for the sound so I axed the sound card.


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[kennethstarrfp]

Packitin Bell is now NEC? NEC stands for Never Ending Crap! NO wonder why the products F U C K I N G S H I T me off!!!

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