On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:21:22PM -0400, Bruce Best (CRO) wrote: > 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. > > He wants to have a dual-boot Debian Woody / Win 2K system. I have a home > network with a high-speed (DSL) internet connection, and have installed > Debian successfully before over the network to my similarly configured HP > Omnibook 500 subnotebook. > > 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. In WinME it works if you create a "rescue disk", and modify autoexec.bat/config.sys with e.g. notepad. That is: if the bios is willing to boot from a floppy at all... > > <<snip>> > > Any suggestions? > > HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x - Say NO to HTML in email / \ - Say NO to Word documents in email (and Macros!)
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