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From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3?
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:10:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004701c7b07c$5ba91770$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c7b07c$067ce470$ab00a8c0@tenstac>

I can deal with it.
How hard are these floppies to get for deb?
Thanks,
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3?


> If you can wait for the network download, sure you can do a 
> net install. There is a way to do this on most distros these days.
> I have done it on debian, redhat, and slackware for sure. Get 
> the network install boot image and let it go, it will take a long
> time though.
> 
>  Tyler said.
> Is there any way I can just install like debian with a really old kernel,
>  like off flyppy, then use apt to upgrade?
> 
> It's not that you'd need an old kernel, just a generic one, 
> basically the same bare ones that are used when doing the
> initial install. But as I said in other message, if you are 
> getting disk boot failure, then something else is wrong. 
> A different kernel will not fix that. Check the connections
> and if you can, check the BIOS drive settings. If there is
> another drive in there, take it out for now and boot with 
> just the new drive.
> 
>   -- Doug
> 
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Littlefield, Tyler
 ` Doug Sutherland
   ` Scott Berry
     ` Littlefield, Tyler
       ` Doug Sutherland
         ` Littlefield, Tyler [this message]
     ` Doug Sutherland
       ` Gregory Nowak
         ` Doug Sutherland
           ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Doug Sutherland
               ` Gregory Nowak
           ` Scott Berry
             ` Doug Sutherland
               ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Doug Sutherland
           ` Littlefield, Tyler

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