Re: Debian install to subnotebook
"Bruce Best (CRO)" <bestb@lao.on.ca> writes:
> My brother-in-law has recently purchased a Sony Vaio SR(??) subnotebook. The
> computer has no internal cd or floppy (though I do have a USB floppy from my
> laptop), but does have a PC-Card D-Link network card, and a USB ZIP drive.
> More unfortunately, it came pre-installed with Windows ME.
>
> I was able to install Debian on my HP subnotebok easily, by downloading the
> relevant boot floppies to my Windows 98 partition, restarting in DOS mode
> and running the appropriate install.bat file. Though I can boot from the
> floppy on my machine, I did not need to to install Debian. However, MS have
> decided to remove the option to start into DOS with Windows ME, so there is
> nowhere to run the install.bat script from. We replaced Windows ME with
> Windows 2000, assuming that surely you can boot to DOS in Win2k, but it
> doesn't seem to have such an option either.
How did you install Win2k?
This link may help with the WinME/DOS problem:
http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
/g.
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