Re: unable to create boot disk
On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:53:33PM -0400, Jen Sadler wrote:
> Hi,
> I Just tried to install Debian 3.0 on my ThinkPad
> A31 laptop. It is my first time trying to install
> Linux on my own, so maybe I'm just doing something
> wrong, but I get to the point where I have to make the
> boot disk, and it tells me my disk must be blank or
> write protected.
The bootfloppy is an optional way to boot your computer
> It has not even checked the floppy
> drive though. I know this because the light doesn't
> come on and it doesn't make any noise. The floppy
> drive on my laptop is an external USB one, so I don't
> think it is even detecting it. Does this mean that I
> can't have Debian at all on my laptop? Is there any
> other way to make the boot disk? I can not set it up
> as bootable because I have Windows 2000 on this
> computer still too. What can I do, if anything?
Read more about bootloaders.
> Thanks for your time,
Sorry for being terse, I'm not a Wintel guy
Geert Stappers
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