"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > 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.
How did you install Win2k? This link may help with the WinME/DOS problem: http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ /g. -- Gustaf Erikson -+- +46 70 444 0726 -+- [http://stureby.net/] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
