Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?

["Tyler Littlefield" <compgeek13@gmail.com>]

thats how I did things. Now, I am sitting with a dos prompt on my screen, 
and I see drive f, (probably the one with the debian cd) and drive g, 
probably my cd burner. Is there a way I can start the install from here?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?


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> I see. Let's go back a bit then. What did you do to get the install to
> start?
>
> What you should have done is to put the debian netinst cd into the
> cd-rom drive, and reboot your machine. If you at that point got the
> invalid disk error, or whatever error you got, you should have then
> rebooted, gone into cmos, and checked if you have a boot from cd
> option in the cmos menus. If you do, then that should have been set to
> boot before the hard drive. What I do on my systems is to set the boot
> order to cd-rom, floppy, first hard drive. Then, you should have saved
> the settings, and tried again. If that didn't work, then I have to
> conclude that perhaps for some reason your machine can't boot from
> cd-rom. However, if the machine originally came with win98 installed,
> then it is most likely new enough to be able to boot from cd-rom.
>
> However, if it can't boot from cd-rom, then you'll need to find a
> floppy image with smart boot manager in it, and write that out to a
> floppy.
>
> If you didn't do things in that way, then maybe you should tell us in
> detail exactly what you did, so that we can make suggestions as to
> where you should go from here.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:53:30PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> BTW, its not with the install of linux that I am having the problem, I 
>> don't
>> see how the docs are helping. I read them, and they jump into 
>> installation
>> and stuff.. that would be good for me, if I could get the install to 
>> start.
>> but as I can't get past these prompts...
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