On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:01:36PM +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.
Hum, I've installed Debian on my laptop (same make/model as yours) a couple of times and never had this problem. Is it LILO that won't start? Will it even install on it? I partitioned my disk as follows hda1 HPFS/NTFS (hardly used, but there for work reasons) hda2 Fat32 (To move files between win2k/Linux environment) hda3 ext2 /boot hda4 extended had5 ext2 / hda6 swap > 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- > It accesses but has problems reading or writing. Hum, haven't tried the floppy. Such outdated technology. ;) //Fredde
