Hi Janina. He is refering to the Debian Cd, just forgot to specify it in the post. I know because I have talked to him at length about this, and I also experienced the same problem. As a result, I ended up installing my system from a Dos batchfile. ----- Original Message ----- From: Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon. > On Sat, 18 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote: > > > I'm unsuccessfull in getting the > > CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server. > > This doesn't make sense, but I suspect you're speaking of the > Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. If not, don't bother with > the rest of this message. > > There is a problem booting from CD ROM with the latest version of > the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. This problem is known > and has been discussed at length on the Speakup list about a week > ago. A fix is in the works. > > Meanwhile, there are a couple of workarounds: > > 1.) If you can boot from a floppy, do so but be sure to not > let the system see the CD ROM as you boot. Keep it out of your > drive, or just keep the drive open until prompted to indicate > what media contains the boot images. > > 2.) Create a bootable CD ROM with nothing on it except the > floppy boot image from the images directory. Boot with this disk, > and swap to the first installation CD ROM when prompted as above. > > 3.) First create three iso files on your hard disk using dd, > one for each of the CD ROMs. Then boot with either a floppy or a > bootable CD ROM as described above, and point the installer to > the appropriate drive partition and directory when prompted. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
