Maybe, but I'm not sure, since I actually never had a chance to use one like that. Greg On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:31:48PM -0500, Rodney wrote: > Gregory, > Thanks for the tip but I have no idea. How would I go about finding > this out. Right now Windows is still installed on the computer so could > I find that info out in the Device Manager or something? > I am going to try making new floppies first and I will post how that > works out. > Thanks. > Rodney > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:22 AM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Slackware 8.0 install error > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
