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From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1@uic.edu>
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Do you know if this machine has a ibm microchannel bus? If it does, then you'll need someone to cook up a speakup kernel for that architecture.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:59:53PM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> Well I reluctantly got some sighted assistance to see what my problem is
> during the install.  The boot disk took 4 minutes 34 seconds to get to
> the root floppy install prompt.  My Doubletalk LT did not start talking
> until the prompt appeared and then it read all of the messages up to the
> prompt.
> I installed the root floppy and pressed enter and got the following
> results.
>  
> vfs: insert root floppy and press enter.
> vfs: insert root floppy and press enter
> vfs: mounted root (minix file system) read only.
> freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 02:1c: rw=0, want=2547, limit=1440
> dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2546 sector=5092 size=1024 count=1
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 02:1c: rw=0, want=2018, limit=1440
> dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2017 sector=4034 size=1024 count=1
> init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: can not open shared
> object file:input/output error
> 
>  
>  
> This computer is an IBM Aptiva
> 275 mhz Pentium
> 32 MB RAM
>  
> Please help.
> Rodney