Hi: normally I boot my Toshiba Satellite with a Windows Startup Disk with CD-ROM support. After it loads, I run the boot.bat inside Install directory on the Debian CD and that's it.
Good luck Pedro ----- Original Message ----- From: Visvanath Ratnaweera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 1:07 PM Subject: CD not bootable > Hi all > > This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need. > > I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few > installation. In all those I could boot from the CD. > > The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX, > refuses to boot from the CD. I made a rescue floppy from DOS usring rawrite2 > which boots fine. > > This is the quesiton: How do I install by making a minimum number of floppies? > > Ideally this rescue CD should be suffiecient. The kernel in the rescue floppy > recognizes the CD. Can I give something like "linux root=...." so that the CD > will take control? > > Cheers > Visvanath. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
