Installing debian on qosmio laptop

[Gary Roach]

Hi

I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual 
boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the 
other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently tried to up grade to 
Jessie and the installation now hangs on boot. There is also problems 
with the Windows side as well. The short tale is that I want to reformat 
both disks and install Jessie from scratch. I have both a stick 
netinstall and and a DVD netinstall available. For some reason I can't 
find a set of instructions that cover installation from scratch. All 
seem to assume that windows or some such is already installed. Neither 
my stick or my DVD will start on boot up no matter what I try. The BIOS 
on this system is a bit strange but on boot up there is an option to 
select what device is to be booted if you are quick. I know that some of 
the bells and whistles on the laptop won't have drivers available in 
linux but don't care. Knoppix boots fine. Could this be used for what I 
want to do.

Does anyone know where I can find a concise set of instructions for a 
"cold iron" installation.

Gary R.