On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:57:58PM -0700, mark barnes wrote: > I'm experiencing some problems installing 2.2r3 on my new thinkpad. It > has a CDROM, no floppy disk drive (but USB floppy is available), and > windows ME installed. The debian CDs (from LinuxCentral) won't boot in > this CDROM, but they will boot on my other machines. I tested the > thinkpad's Cd player with another bootable CD (Windows NT) and it was > able to boot. I've tried everyway I can think of to boot from the CDs, > but no luck. So, how do I go about installing on this thinkpad? > > I tried to run boot.bat from within windows ME, but was informed via the > friendly MS help system that it needs DOS real mode to run, and that DOS > real mode isn't available within Windows ME. Boot.bat starts loadlin. > Is there a way to run loadlin from within windows? Is this the best way > to go about this?
mark, i had the same issue to deal with, although it was windows98, so this may or may not apply/help. i found a utility (tweakui98) that let me boot to dos rather than windows. from there i got loadlin to work just fine. i don't know if there is such an animal for windows ME, but it might be worth a check. note that we are talking about starting the machine in dos, not starting dos from within ME (which you have learned doesn't work for loadlin under ME). HTH -- Sergio J. Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html "No, Hardy! No, Hardy! It is a very interesting number. It is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways." - Ramanujan on the number 1729
