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

["Shigeki Minami" <s-minami@example.com>]

Hi,

NEC PC-9821V12 is not based on IBM PC architecuture.

You will need special type of Linux such as Plamo Linux
http://www.linet.gr.jp/~kojima/Plamo/ 
(Japanese web site)

Shigeki 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antony@example.com [mailto:antony@example.com]On Behalf Of Antony Stace
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: tlug@example.com
> 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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