From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:10:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c1fe9f$b3f94ec0$02263e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205181447500.1448-100000@toccata.rednote.net>
Hi Janina. He is refering to the Debian Cd, just forgot to specify it in the post. I know because I have talked to him at length about this, and I also experienced the same problem. As a result, I ended up installing my system from a Dos batchfile.
----- Original Message -----
From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.
> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote:
>
> > I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
> > CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server.
>
> This doesn't make sense, but I suspect you're speaking of the
> Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. If not, don't bother with
> the rest of this message.
>
> There is a problem booting from CD ROM with the latest version of
> the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. This problem is known
> and has been discussed at length on the Speakup list about a week
> ago. A fix is in the works.
>
> Meanwhile, there are a couple of workarounds:
>
> 1.) If you can boot from a floppy, do so but be sure to not
> let the system see the CD ROM as you boot. Keep it out of your
> drive, or just keep the drive open until prompted to indicate
> what media contains the boot images.
>
> 2.) Create a bootable CD ROM with nothing on it except the
> floppy boot image from the images directory. Boot with this disk,
> and swap to the first installation CD ROM when prompted as above.
>
> 3.) First create three iso files on your hard disk using dd,
> one for each of the CD ROMs. Then boot with either a floppy or a
> bootable CD ROM as described above, and point the installer to
> the appropriate drive partition and directory when prompted.
>
>
>
>
>
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Thomas Ward
` Erik Heil
` Igor Gueths
` Janina Sajka
` Igor Gueths [this message]
` Gregory Nowak
` Shaun Oliver
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` Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
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