Re: Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.
Do you have "helpfull" boot sector protection turned on in the BIOS of
the machine? Are you loading the correct parallel port modules? You'll
need parport and a bunch of other ones. The kernel menuconfig should be
able to explain it to you better than I can pull it out of a hat.
--mike
On 09 Aug 2001 18:01:36 +0300, David Randelman wrote:
> I seem to be having problems installing Debian on my laptop Compaq M700, there seems to be 2 problems:
> 1) It won't install a boot manager on the HD even though I have a dedicated H.D and even tried to partition a 10MB drive in the beginning of the disk just in case.
> 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing.
>
> I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations.
> Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this?
> Cheers,
> --David Randelman
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