I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum for this



Alright, I am a long time Microsoft user (games of course). I have installed Linux in the past, but not on this computer. Brand new computer, have been using it extensively for the past month or so, and recently I just had the urge to install linux on it and play around with it a little more (educational purposes mainly)

I have a retail CD I bought years ago of Linux SUSE 10.1

When I try to install it, it boots from the CD and then goes to the installation menu. I select 'install' (logical choice ) It sits there a minute, then tells me there is no CDROM drive attached to the computer


Ok, confused, I mean there is obviously a CDROM drive (I booted from it in the first place) IIRC when I selected 'view installed CDROM drives/hard drives' it came up empty.

I decided to try another source, so I downloaded Installing Debian GNU/Linux via the Internet the I386 build of Debian (which I believe is the correct one)

Yet it does the exact same thing. No CDROM drive attached



Any idea what could possibly be the issue? Obviously it works fine in Vista and BIOS recognizes it just fine. I looked through the BIOS settings just to make sure nothing popped out at me, which nothing looked promising


(for reference this is my computer custom gaming laptops - Welcome to Sager Notebooks )



Thank you for your time