Add the hint how to install on a Compaq `Aero'.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp b/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
index 0fbe7ee..6195e22 100644
--- a/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
+++ b/release/sysinstall/help/hardware.hlp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Hardware Documentation Guide:  $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.29 1997/10/15 04:37:24 jkh Exp $
+Hardware Documentation Guide:  $Id: hardware.hlp,v 1.30 1997/10/17 06:48:35 msmith Exp $
 
 Contents last changed:  Jan 14th, 1997
 
@@ -485,6 +485,17 @@ A: Yes, it is.  There's a workaround available now and it is enabled
    For the details refer to the manual page of the disk driver (man 4 wd).
 
 
+Q: On a Compaq Aero notebook, I get the message "No floppy devices found!
+   Please check ..." when trying to install from floppy.
+
+A: With Compaq being always a little different from other systems, they
+   do not announce their floppy drive in the CMOS RAM of an Aero notebook.
+   Therefore, the floppy disk driver assumes there is no drive configured.
+   Go to the UserConfig screen, and set the Flags value of the fdc0 device
+   to 0x1.  This pretends the existance of the first floppy drive (as a
+   1.44 MB drive) to the driver without asking the CMOS at all.
+
+
 Q: When I go to boot my Intel AL440LX ("Atlanta") -based system from the
    hard disk the first time, it stops with a "Read Error" message.