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* Cannot install Fedora Core 6
@  Christian
   ` Buddy Brannan
   ` Janina Sajka
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Christian @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Hi all,
OK, so I have my Apollo synth here. I have burned the 3.2 GB DVD and I type the following at the boot prompt:
speakup_synth=apollo but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks,
Christian



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* Re: Cannot install Fedora Core 6
@  Darragh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Darragh @  UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: speakup

Hay there.

It sounds exactly like the problem I encountered a week ago.

Thankfully, with sighted assistance I used the graphical installer and didn't encounter this problem.

I think it will work for you if you choose to install virtualization.  Let me know how you get on. I'm very interested in this as it drove me crazy for days!

Thanks


-------- Original Message --------
> From: "Buddy Brannan" <buddy@brannan.name>
> Sent: 02 November 2006 16:25
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Cannot install Fedora Core 6
> 
> I'm actually having a different problem installing FC6. (Yes, I've decided 
> to change from Debian and try out Fedora.) Any help would be much 
> appreciated.
> 
> I tried installing off CD's, and it goes through all the dependency checks 
> and all that, then it bombs out saying it can't find some package. In this 
> case, it's one of the openoffice packages. This package, I note, is on disc 
> #3 or #4 (pretty sure it's #3), but it never asks for discs after the first. 
> I checked, and df showed no CD mounted, so I changed to a different disc. 
> The installation griped when I pressed "Try again" and asked for Fedora 
> Disc -99 (negative 99?!)
> 
> This all happens when Fedora's copying the installation image after all the 
> dependency checks. Needsless to say...I now have a shiny Linux system with 
> nothing on it!
> 
> I had a similar problem when installing over NFS. In this case, I put all 
> the CDROM images in a folder, along with their contents (in directories 
> called Disc1 through Disc5). Ever tried finding an NFS server for Windows? 
> Anyway... I even tried to do a hard disk install, as I had the CD images on 
> a next3 partition on the machine I was installing on, and the boot CD or the 
> rescue CD wouldn't mount my ext3 partition to find the CD images (it wanted 
> a FAT file system...go figure!)
> 
> So, now I'm downloading the DVD image and will try to install over NFS with 
> it, since my Linux machine doesn't have a DVD-ROM. Meantime, I expect I'll 
> run into this again, so if anyone has any brilliant ideas on what steps I 
> missed or how to work around this, I'd appreciate.
> 
> Thanks :) 
> 
> 
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