Re: Help with Installing Linux on a NEC PC 9821V12 machine.

["pietro zuco" <pietrozuco@example.com>]

I had the same problem with the pc of my girl friend. It's a nec-pc98.
I coud access the bios by pressing the key HELP when it start, but I don't
know if this key is in all the nec computers.
I wanted to install windows 98 japanese but I coundn't because it's a
different architercture. I tried to find some patch, (like AMD) in the
microsoft page but I coudn't, but meybe there are.

Bye
Pietro.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Stace" <antony@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:10 AM
Subject: Help with Installing Linux on a NEC PC 9821V12 machine.


> Hi
>
> I have been trying to install Linux on a NEC PC-9821V12 without
> much success.
>
> The machine came with a copy of Japanese Windows 95 on it.  While this
> was on the machine I made a floppy boot disk using Windows 95 and copied
> the
> appropriate drivers onto it to get the CDROM working if I needed it.  I
> then proceeded to format the harddrive.
> After doing this
> I tried to boot the machine with a boot disk with the boot image from a
> Redhat
> 6.0 disk, no luck, the machine just spun the floppy a few times and then
> left me with a black screen.  I then tried to boot with a English
> Windows
> 95 boot disk, again same thing.
>
> The boot disk which I made with Japanese Windows 95 does work.  However
> I tried to install an English version of Windows 95 on it,  I changed to
> the
> CDROM and typed in setup, nothing happened, the setup program doesn't
> seem to
> run, if I try and install the Japanese version of Windows 95 it does
> work.
>
> The other thing which I cannot work out is that there does not seem to
> be
> any BIOS program that the user can use.  When it boots it simply
> displays a
> memory test to the screen and then tries to boot the floppy followed by
> the
> Hard drive in that order.
>
>
> Can someone please tell me whats going on and how I can install linux on
> this
> machine.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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