Charles Blair wrote:
Pressing F2 at the beginning gives me a menu, but I didn't see anything for booting from the CD/DVD drive.
Did you try F12?Additionally if you can go into the bios then select the dvd/cd drive to be the first disk to boot from.
Bonus question: I should be using AMD-64 netinst, right?
Looks like that laptop has a 64 bits CPU. You can use both 32 and 64 bits debian but to get the most out of it it's a good idea to use amd64 yes. It'll be faster and you'll be able to allocate more memory.
Greetings, Jeroen -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html