Two problems - can you help?

[Ymer]

I've got two problems, and I hope someone can help me fix this.


1. Installing any ADOBE READER version:

Message -

Can not start this 16-bit program. Close other applications and try again."
(translated). It also says there's not enough memory.

OR: Nothing happens after unpacking the files in the installer.

Windows XP, Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 228 RAM


2.


Getting a laptop going when it's without an operating system. The hard drive was cleaned up
really good before it was given to me. I can't get into any BIOS during setup. It also seems that
the machine is confused about what's the A: and what's the C: drives. It has removable floppy and CD-ROM drive,
which makes it difficult to get anything sane done, as I constantly have to switch between these two drives in
order to find some loophole which would give me the POWER to revitalize this old thing.

It's a Compaq Armada, 266 MHz laptop, I don't know anything else about it.

Thanks for bothering to read this stuff

[meese]

You are talking about the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, correct? Did you download the latest version from the Adobe website? I pretty sure its a 32Bit program. Pretty weird if you are trying to install that and you get a 16bit program error message.