I know what's going on. Your laptop and your desktop do not share identical disk formats for floppy disks. The disks you were sent will work with your desktop machine since that's probably standard format, but your laptop has a different and possibly proprietary disk format in use. Software exists to analyze disks and detect the formats used on odd machines though that stuff runs in dos. You'll need to search something like the simtelnet archives to find it though probably in the msdos/diskutls directory. x On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I added a serial line to the syslinux.cfg so I could see what was going on. The > message I got was > unable to find kernel image: vmlinuz > and also I still haven't figured out for sure about the "dd", though I'm sure it > is now needed for using two floppies. > I did get debian installed finally and i also have gotten brltty to work on my > debian installation so this wasn't a brltty or braillelite problem. > The vanilla flavored woody installation disks still won't work for me on my > laptop but will on my desktop, so I think that's a laptop/kernel issue rather > than a brltty issue. I tried the woody install cds (rescue and root) on my > laptop without any modification for brltty and they still didn't work there and > worked on the desktop. so I have an email in to debian-laptop about that. > Still think it might be fun to try Red hat sometime but at least I do have a > system installed now. > > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >