On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 10:53:33PM -0400, Jen Sadler wrote: > Hi, > I Just tried to install Debian 3.0 on my ThinkPad > A31 laptop. It is my first time trying to install > Linux on my own, so maybe I'm just doing something > wrong, but I get to the point where I have to make the > boot disk, and it tells me my disk must be blank or > write protected. The bootfloppy is an optional way to boot your computer
> It has not even checked the floppy > drive though. I know this because the light doesn't > come on and it doesn't make any noise. The floppy > drive on my laptop is an external USB one, so I don't > think it is even detecting it. Does this mean that I > can't have Debian at all on my laptop? Is there any > other way to make the boot disk? I can not set it up > as bootable because I have Windows 2000 on this > computer still too. What can I do, if anything? Read more about bootloaders. > Thanks for your time, Sorry for being terse, I'm not a Wintel guy Geert Stappers
