While at work today, one of my customers was tossing out and old PC. Its a Compaq (model unknown) PIII 800mhz. It has 256m ram and an Nvidia Riva card. It had Windows ME on it (yuk man yuk), which I quickly wiped clean and put on antiX base. Added kdebase, swiftweasel and a few other apps. It really runs great, better then I expected.

A couple things:

1) When booting up, it says

..Bios needs updating or force_addr=xaddr (any real problem?)

If I find a bios update, how will it work in Linux? (I assume it will be a floppy file in .exe form)

2) Also, when I installed today, it set up two partitions, one root 10g and a home 8.5g. Can I merge these two together now to take advantage of the limited 18.5g space without reformatting as I have it all tweaked out already?

TIA

i get the same message on my p111 128mb ram,about bios,but everything still boots up and runs fine,so i dont think its a problem. the other ? is im not really positive but i think you can,i could be wrong.hoped i helped

Thanks Acid, but I re-did it. It was a shame too, it ran so well.