New At This

[Andrew & Joyce]

Hi,   I am having a go at installing Linux for the very first time. I have a copy of Debian 3.0 and I am installing it onto a HP Omnibook 900. This laptop has a floppy disk drive and an external USB CDROM. I have downloaded the files and created the 26 floppy disks inorder to install Debian.   Here is my problem..   During the install I have enabled SCSI and USB Mass Storage as well as USB HID as I use a USB mouse with this machine as well.   I can not get the CDROM to work. I have gone over the instructions time and time again even reinstalled several times to make sure that I was enabling all the right things according to instructions, but to no avail.   I need HELP   Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.   Andrew