> -----Original Message----- > From: dxtr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: CD install with no floppy drive?? > > Hi, > > I tried to install Debian in my laptop, but it has swappable floppy/cd > drive, so I can only the CD drive. How can I bypass the floppy boot disk > setup? There is no skip button, it just have a continue/OK button. > > Thanks, > dex
Which laptop? If you can't boot from the CD, check if you can't connect the floppy drive to the parallel port and boot from it with the CD still in place. That's what I have to do on my Olivetti Echos P75 (from 1996), and it works just fine. The whole Echos series from that era have this nice feature, presumeably as they can't use bootable CD's (they of course supply the special cable to do the trick), and only have room inside the casing for either the floppy or the CD. Obviously with the advent of bootable CD's this feature may have disappeared on the more modern laptops, I don't know. Maybe time to read the fine manual ;-) HTH -- Peter Hugosson-Miller "Faber est suae quisque fortunae."
