Well Gordon your gonna have to do what I did on my first day of using any sort of unix and compile your own kernel. I know it's jumping in head first but if that's what you want your going to have to do it. Personally my experiences with suse slackware redhat caldera corel and turbo have all lead me to use debian. Enough of the distro war though. Unfortunately there aren't any people on this list using suse so were probably not going to be much help. Let me know if you need any help. I'd be glad to give you a hand. On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hi Frank. The drive should be bootable, as SuSE works just fine with > it. Having said that, I use an external boot manager at present. But even > this won't work if my BIOS isn't set right. Yeah, my motherboard has 4 > on-board IDE channels, permitting a maximum of 8 devices. But I take your > point regarding the kernels. Again, going back to SuSE, that does support > it directly. As I said in a previous message, if I could only get hold of > a kernel for SuSE with Speakup I'd be happy to stick with it. > > At 06:48 16/09/01 -0400, Frank Carmickle said: > > >You didn't say you had two controllers. That makes life a bit different. > >First off the kernel needs to have support build in for your second > >controller. well really your third and fourth controller most likely. I > >do believe that slackware has support for the promise controllers built in > >to the bare.i boot disk. If not this could be a bit of a problem assuming > >that is the kind of controller you have. In either case it is probable > >that the drive that is in question is really /dev/hde. > > > >If you need anymore help just call or write. It could get a little tricky > >to set this up and boot off of that drive. Unless your thinking of > >booting from a floppy the lilo config to boot this setup will prove to be a > >learning experience for you. > > > >-- > > Frank Carmickle > >phone: 412 761-9568 > >email: frankiec at dryrose.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Kind regards, Gordon Smith. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > "mailto:Gordon Smith <gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk" > "mailto:Gordon Smith <07932634539 at one2one.net" > http://www.tft-bbs.co.uk> > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.co.uk > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.com > ftp://ftp.tft-bbs.org.uk > > ICQ: 23973878 > MSN Messenger: gordon at tft-bbs.co.uk > > Tel.: +44 7932 634 539 > Fax.: +44 1642 357 754 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Frank Carmickle phone: 412 761-9568 email: frankiec at dryrose.com
