Hi Bruce Back to the download drawing board. Also what synth are you trying to get working with this? I would recommend that you boot from a boot disk and not from dos. I know it shouldn't be a problem but you never no. Also you should use ftp under a dos sesion to get the disk images in binary form. Since you have the cd's you will just need the boot and root disks. We will certainly hang in there with you until you get it going. Hope this helped FC On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Bruce Noblick wrote: > 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 at braille.uwo.ca> > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
