From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail14.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.141]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16SLrl-0006He-00 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:34:49 -0500 Received: from rdhdesk1 ([24.40.20.173]) by femail14.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20020120173451.KKWU28557.femail14.sdc1.sfba.home.com@rdhdesk1> for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:34:51 -0800 From: "Rodney" To: Subject: RE: Slackware 8.0 install error Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:31:48 -0500 Message-ID: <000901c1a1d8$571fe340$0200a8c0@wall1.pa.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <20020120102227.A310@uic.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Gregory, Thanks for the tip but I have no idea. How would I go about finding this out. Right now Windows is still installed on the computer so could I find that info out in the Device Manager or something? I am going to try making new floppies first and I will post how that works out. Thanks. Rodney -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:22 AM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Slackware 8.0 install error Do you know if this machine has a ibm microchannel bus? If it does, then you'll need someone to cook up a speakup kernel for that architecture. Greg On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:59:53PM -0500, Rodney wrote: > Well I reluctantly got some sighted assistance to see what my problem > is during the install. The boot disk took 4 minutes 34 seconds to get > to the root floppy install prompt. My Doubletalk LT did not start > talking until the prompt appeared and then it read all of the messages > up to the prompt. I installed the root floppy and pressed enter and > got the following results. > > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter. > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter > vfs: mounted root (minix file system) read only. > freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed > attempt to access beyond end of device > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2547, limit=1440 > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2546 sector=5092 size=1024 count=1 > attempt to access beyond end of device > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2018, limit=1440 > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2017 sector=4034 size=1024 count=1 > init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: can not open > shared object file:input/output error > > > > This computer is an IBM Aptiva > 275 mhz Pentium > 32 MB RAM > > Please help. > Rodney _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup