Problems installing Debian on Compaq Armada M700.

[David Randelman]

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. 2) I can't access the parallel floppy drive which comes with Compaq- It accesses but has problems reading or writing.   I boot ok from the CD-ROM and I tried many different partition configurations. Any ideas? Anyone else encounter this? Cheers, --David Randelman