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I am trying to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 from the official two-CD set (ordered from Cheap*Bytes) on my ThinkPad 760EL. My problem is that once I start the Linux installation process (i.e., when DOS stops running and Linux install starts running), Linux will no longer read my internal 6x CD-ROM drive successfully. It knows the drive's there since I see /dev/hdb: <info about the Teac-made CD-ROM drive> go by when Linux starts up, but I get lots and lots of /dev/hdb: status=0x???? (I can't remember) and other error messages whenever I switch from screen to screen in the Linux installation. When I get to the point where it asks me to select the media from which to install the Linux base system and packages, I select /dev/hdb and hit return but I see these error messages again and then I'm back where I started again with no way to make progress. Note, I have tried floppy=thinkpad already, as in loadlin.exe linux root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin floppy=thinkpad but it didn't help. Neither did saying hdb=cdrom. If anybody has any idea what is going on, please tell me. Otherwise, I'll have to copy the whole CD to my hard disk and try to install Linux from there. Thanks, John