basically I'm trying to install Debian on a really loving annoying machine; an IBM x20 model 2662.
I've tried everything to get it to load from removable media, and so has my dad (and he doesn't shovel coal for a living either), and nothing works. Basically what he did many years ago when he first acquired the laptop was stick Ubuntu 10.04 onto it, but that was really pushing it with the laptop's max RAM of ~300 MB. I decided to try and put Debian on it using the same method that he did; make a 700MB partition on the HDD and "burn" the ISO of the OS there.
After using Unetbootin to stick a copy of the latest stable version of debian onto the partition, the installer loads and all, however after I try to load installer components from 'CD', it keeps looking for a real, physical CD, which the IBM does not have (and yes I have tried hooking up like 3 different DVD drives to it via USB with the installer disk in them and to no avail). I also tried specifying which 'CD drive' to mount, and after trying all the variations of /dev/sd**, I'm about to give up.
I know there are competent Linux experts here, So I'll just keep posting my questions on this forum.
TL;DR installing Debian from HDD partition don't work
