Hi: This is mainly a note to Gene Collins who's been giving me a direct hand with a Debian install. But, I'm cc'ing the list to maximize my help resources! <grin> I've just concluded installing a base Debian 2.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 560Z. I'm pretty certain the install went smoothly. No complaints during the process, at least. Also, I know that lilo is working as it loads and I'm able to restart with a Control-Alt-Delete. I have no speech, however. Is that to be expected at this stage? The way I had speech during the installation was to pass speakup_ser=1 to the kernel. Seems linux sees my ir port as ttyS0, and my serial as ttyS1. Anyway, I'm in a new kind of funny position. I tried at first to linload following a floppy DOS boot. That didn't work because the something in the process accessed the floppy which just spun and spun. So, I booted Windows and did a shutdown to MS DOS. On the Thinkpad that forces a reboot into DOS. But now I can't get back to that DOS prompt because lilo never gave me the opportunity to specify a second OS. So, I can't now get back to a hard-disk boot of DOS in order to try and boot my installation from linload. Any ideas? Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
