Hi all! I appreciate the time that everyone has spent helping me on this. This machine is a Compaq presario -- I don't know the model number, 600 mhz, 128 mb ram, 20 gig hard drive, dvd reader, cd writer, built in modem, NIC card, sound blaster live and pentium 3 processor.. I forgot one other thing I did while someone was here to watch this weekend. I have the 6 disk set debian distribution and I discovered that my machine was capable of booting from CD-ROM. I put the first Debian disk in and booted and got prompts for keyboard and hard drive partitioning stuff like I would have expected so I think the machine is basicly allright. I don't know if any of this helps much. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Carmickle" <frankiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup-info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 7:45 AM Subject: Re: not working yet > Hi Bruce. > > What machine is this? This is a kernel configuration problem I do > believe. If you could give me the make of the machine, or, if it is a > self built machine, which processor and chipset that is on the > motherboard? We will get this working. Sorry you have had such problems. > > FC > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Bruce Noblick wrote: > > > I have tried four things, one of which is suggested here. > > > > 1. Download with ftp in binary mode to my system at work, split and > > transfer the files to diskette, reassemble them at home and run install from > > MSDOS mode. I had someone to watch the screen. It started expanding files > > and ran into a CRC error and halted. I think it was trying to do something > > with root.bin. > > 2. I looked more carefully at the options during download with internet > > explorer. There is a combo box with two choices: document and all files. I > > decided to experiment with the all files choice. I discovered that most of > > the .bin and .img files had the default set to document. In all subsequent > > steps, I made sure that it was set to all files for these. For .zip and > > .EXE files, the default setting seemed to work properly. I checked this > > choice on every subsequent download to make sure that it looked like a > > binary download would take place. > > 3. I took a suggestion to try downloading zipspeak. I did and it worked. > > I was asked for a login. I did not know where to go from there so I entered > > root and got a command prompt. Ctrl-alt-del shut the system down > > wonderfully but I had to turn it off and on to get back to MSDOS. > > 4. I tried downloading debian again and it did not work.. I did not have > > anyone available to look at the screen. While I did, I dug around in the > > BIOS settings and didn't find much of anything worthy of note. > > > > I don't have much of an idea where to go with this from here. I am > > reasonably sure I am downloading properly, I am also reasonably certain that > > the system will work with linux since zipspeak worked. I am not sure what > > else to try. Thanks much for all the help up to this point and I hope soon > > to get to a point with this that I don't have to ask so many questions. > > > > Enjoy! > > Bruce > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net> > > To: "Bruce Noblick" <bnoblick at columbus.rr.com> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:28 PM > > Subject: Re: not working yet > > > > > > > Bruce, > > > > > > One catch if you are using the ftp program that comes in windows. Be sure > > > to set the transfer to bianary with the command "bin". It is easily > > > overlooked. That and most programs will automatically choose the corect > > > mode. But MS chose to not impliment that feature and it will download via > > > text mode ruining the bianary files. (Downloading text via bianary doesn't > > > seem to cause any harm though.) > > > > > > ======= > > > Kirk Wood > > > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > > > > > Cluelessness > > > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > > > inquisitive idiots > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
