In as much as I can't find a support page or email contact for us poor shmos that want desperately to install Linux, but who are unable to, I've taken the liberty of writing here.
I have a Compaq 7PL287, running Windows ME, and have tried installing Linux RedHat and Mandrake for the last 1 1/2 months, with equal success-none to be exact.
When attempting to install RedHat, the installation proceeds to: running /sbin/loader, and then freezes there and nothing else happens!
I've tried everything I can think of: I installed Windows 98, thinking that it might be a ME problem. No dice. I've tried various .img files, all with the same result.
I hope that someone has a solution to this thing. I suspect that "you know who" has made it such that a Linux install is impossible with this computer. If this is so, then the future of the Linux OS is at stake. If not, I would appreciate some sort of help here. My best friend is very Linux literate, and is at his wits end on this thing. He has a smaller and slightly earlier version of my computer, and has had a dual boot thing going for over a year.
I mean, I'd be very happy to stick it to Gates and co., especially after they seem to have misplaced DOS ("We feel that consumers no longer need DOS" -a Compaq representative). My only fear is that he may have stuck it to me first.
PLEASE HELP!
 
~Eugene Bienvenue

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