Do you know if this machine has a ibm microchannel bus? If it does, then you'll need someone to cook up a speakup kernel for that architecture. Greg On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:59:53PM -0500, Rodney wrote: > Well I reluctantly got some sighted assistance to see what my problem is > during the install. The boot disk took 4 minutes 34 seconds to get to > the root floppy install prompt. My Doubletalk LT did not start talking > until the prompt appeared and then it read all of the messages up to the > prompt. > I installed the root floppy and pressed enter and got the following > results. > > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter. > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter > vfs: mounted root (minix file system) read only. > freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed > attempt to access beyond end of device > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2547, limit=1440 > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2546 sector=5092 size=1024 count=1 > attempt to access beyond end of device > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2018, limit=1440 > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2017 sector=4034 size=1024 count=1 > init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: can not open shared > object file:input/output error > > > > This computer is an IBM Aptiva > 275 mhz Pentium > 32 MB RAM > > Please help. > Rodney