I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and then boot it using the debian CD.
Also, you might get some help from debian-laptop@lists.debian.org mailing list. Hope this helps, Mark. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone brought me a disk with Debian 2.2 on it and the packages. My problem > is I have a laptop with CDROM and floppy interchangeable, but not resident > together. I also have part of a Debian shell on the laptop, no DOS > partition, etc., just Debian and a Swap partition. > > When I go to the CDROM and type install under Debian I get a too few > arguments message, --help doesn't :( > > What do I do? > > I do have a desktop with windows ME on it. Can I upgrade from CDROM? Need > to do a rawrite to floppy and loadlin to floppy? > > Help! > > I'm sitting with a $2k paperweight :( > > Peace > > Paul > > Go here to see the TKCL proposed knife calendar pictures! > http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1172947&a=8635040 > > Join my new Knife Collector's Forum at: > http://pub26.ezboard.com/bcollectorsknives93591 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"
