Zipspeak Problem

Zipspeak Problem

[Jim Wantz]

I have been trying to run Zipspeak on a desktop Dell with a 200MHZ MMX
with a 4.6 gigabyte disk drive.  I downloaded the proper kernel and the
mini Transport speaks just fine.  Unfortunately, I have been unable to
find the disk partition where Linux resides.  I've tried at least 15
combinations by editing linux.bat and thus far, no luck.  I keep getting a
kernel panic.  My editing is doing something because the numbers it
reports keep changing (major and minor device number?).  The right shift
key and page down keys seem to do nothing.  Any suggestions?



    Jim WB0TFK

Re: Zipspeak Problem

[frankiec]

Hi Jim

I believe that it should be /dev/hda1 if it is drive C:.  But that may not
be.  You will need to figure out what interface the disk is running
on.  So watch the kernel messages and you will find the different
partisions that exist on your machine.
Frank


On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jim Wantz wrote:

> I have been trying to run Zipspeak on a desktop Dell with a 200MHZ MMX
> with a 4.6 gigabyte disk drive.  I downloaded the proper kernel and the
> mini Transport speaks just fine.  Unfortunately, I have been unable to
> find the disk partition where Linux resides.  I've tried at least 15
> combinations by editing linux.bat and thus far, no luck.  I keep getting a
> kernel panic.  My editing is doing something because the numbers it
> reports keep changing (major and minor device number?).  The right shift
> key and page down keys seem to do nothing.  Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
>     Jim WB0TFK
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Zipspeak Problem

[Jason Custer]

Hi,
I don't know if you have already tried these ideas, and I don't know much
about Dell, but here are a few ideas that may help.
You have probibly tried all these already, but here goes. First, are you in
dos? You have to go to start, shutdown, restart in m.s. dos. Here is another
thaught. The folder where zipspeak is must be \linux on whatever drive you
are on. In other words, when you unzip the zipspeak file, linux.bat should
be in \linux. If you have only one partition, then maybe it is /dev/hda1. If
you are on another partition, mabe it is /dev/hda5. Also, you must use
winzip to presurve long filenames, and you must preserve the directory tree.
Good luck, and I hope there is at least one idea that you have not yet
tried.

Jason C.