From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nsfone.fone.net ([206.168.68.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HzjIe-0004vh-00 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:11:28 -0400 Received: from mail2.fone.net (mail2.fone.net [206.168.68.165]) by nsfone.fone.net (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5H1Aadd009857 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:10:36 -0600 (MDT) Received: from GRANDMA (ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net [206.123.194.16]) by mail2.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id l5H1B04W018301 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:11:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <004701c7b07c$5ba91770$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001e01c7b044$fd7fbbe0$6401a8c0@GRANDMA><007401c7b04f$923f85d0$ab00a8c0@tenstac><007901c7b065$01102810$9501a8c0@yellobow><002601c7b072$058f0d90$6401a8c0@GRANDMA> <004b01c7b07c$067ce470$ab00a8c0@tenstac> Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:10:50 -0600 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 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000749-2, 06/16/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.16.175133 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:11:29 -0000 I can deal with it. How hard are these floppies to get for deb? Thanks, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ [My programs don't have bugs; just randomly added features] msn: compgeek13@gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 vertigo head coder web: tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup