From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca([129.100.2.63]) (3345 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:02:59 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (dhcp065-024-000-112.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112] (may be forged)) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0S332d18814 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:03:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from footrest (dhcp065-024-137-243.columbus.rr.com [65.24.137.243]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f0S30dr04547 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:00:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000301c088d5$f9f0e6e0$f3891841@columbus.rr.com> From: "Bruce Noblick" To: References: Subject: Re: not working yet Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:56:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 List-Id: I looked at the Debian web site and on the Debian distribution disks. I did not find anything on the web site. I found some possibilities on the disks but the ones on the first three disks were .deb files. There appear to be some possibilities on the source disks but I don't have a way of compiling them and I am not really sure what I should look for. I looked for cd*.* and found something like cdao, cdread cdwrite and cdrecord. I think that is what they were. I am not sure what I should be looking for or how to get executables for them. The source files are compressed but I think I can handle themwith WINZIP if I know which ones to expand. I can try to expand them all but if someone knows what I need, it could save me a lot of time digging through the documentation if there is any available. It appears that the boot image is not findable as a file on the CD either so it looks like I need to read the boot image through some other mechanism and I am not sure that any of those programs are what I need to to that. I would appreciate any suggestions. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" To: "speakup-info" Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:25 PM Subject: Re: not working yet > There is a program distributed by Debian for just for the purpose of > making bootable debian CDs. I would suggest you start there. It is > available in both Winblows and Linux (I believe). That would probably be > the place to start. I wouldn not imagine it too hard to sub the bootable > image. > > For those not aware of how a CD boots: > The BIOS reads a bianary image of a bootable floppy disk saved in the > first file position on the disk. For the duration of the boot this is > treated as the first floppy drive (A: for winblows, /dev/fd0 for > Linux). It should stay as such until either the CD or the floppy is > changed. > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net > > Cluelessness > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > inquisitive idiots > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >