Can't he start from a winxp boot disk, get a command prompt, and then run rawrite? Greg On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:06:12PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. The problem in his case is that winblows xp won't give him explicit access to the floppy drive, saying that the floppy controler has failed. As a result, he can't access the drive from a cmd prompt. And he doesn't currently have a machine running w98 from which he could boot into real mode dos. He could possibly use winwrite. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Erik Heil <eheil at rcn.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:01 PM > Subject: Re: 2.2R6 Speakup ISO > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for the suggestion. i'm currently running Windoes XP and can't > > successfully create the boot disk using rawrite. But Thanks for the > > suggestion. BTW, are their any plans to update the ISO with at least the > > current kernels from kernerl.org? Or are we going to just use Woody? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:10 PM > > Subject: Re: 2.2R6 Speakup ISO > > > > > > > Hi, Erik: > > > > > > You can boot from a special floppy. The images for creating the > > > bootable floppy are on the first CD ROM in the /images directory. > > > The tools you can use to create the bootable floppy are in a > > > directory on the first CD ROM called /dosutils. > > > > > > The image you need to use is probably boot.img. To be sure, you > > > might want to follow our guide on installation available at: > > > > > > > > > http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html > > > > > > Good luck, and don't hesitate to ask for help. > > > > > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone. I recently obtained and downloaded the ISO containing > > Speakup pre-compiled into it. However, I'm unable to boot from the CD. > > Note that this machine's BIOS does support booting off the CD. Do any of > > you have any suggestions? BC I'm anxious to get Linux on this box and > > totally do away with the NTFS filesystem which presently occupies one of the > > two HD's. The second is just a standard FAT filesystem. This is a 166MHZ > > box with 64MB of RAM and one 1.6 and one 2.6GZ HD. Thanks for any help that > > anyone of you could provide. This also has an internal DoubleTalk PC coard. > > To write the ISO's, I used EZ CD Creator under Windblows. > > > > --Erik > > > > > > > > God Bless, > > > > Erik > > > > <eheil at rcn.com> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > > Technology Research and Development > > > Governmental Relations Group > > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
