Re: small laptop with only floppy drive

[Brandon Richards <hobbes34@gmail.com>]

ok here is the deal i have another really nice laptop with windows xp
on it.  i tried to dual boot into windows and debian and it wouldnt
let me into debian.  so i tried to put windows back on.  while in the
process of doing this something locked up and i rebooted.  now it wont
let me install anything.  when i try to boot into windows it locks up
at the windows screen then reboots.  when i try to boot into dos it
locks up at the mup.sys file.  i have googled the mup.sys file and it
gives me crap.  so i made a knoppix cd. it will let me boot into
knoppix, but i dont have any privileges as i dont know knoppix's su
password.  i want to install debian but dont know how to.  when i boot
into knoppix and run partition image i get three different drives in
the menu.  i know what two of them are but cant figure out the third
and it wont let me do anything as i am not su.  please help any way u
can.

thanks,

brandon

On Apr 4, 2005 4:34 PM, Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> wrote:
> > Can you tell me where I can find a backpack CD drive.
> 
> I used this method long ago to install Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 560
> (it actually had a PCMCIA CD drive, but the install disks didn't
> support it).  I borrowed the Backpack drive from the tech support
> group of the company I was working for.  Maybe there's a local Linux
> Users Group you can ask?
> 
> > I know I could probably find one on ebay but I dont have any money
> > to spend on such stuff?
> 
> They're only about $10 ...
> 
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> Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u
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