Have you tried installing Debian from the hd? Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, keep in mind that i'm not yet able to connect to a network or the Internet, > so that limits my install possibilities. First I tried the old debian woody > floppies enabled with speakup; was able to do the preliminary steps but had a > problem when I used the floppies for the base system. they wouldn't extract > properly after being loaded, maybe because the base system floppies are much > later than the woody pre-release disks on the speakup site. Tried it twice with > two sets of floppies; no error messages on any of the floppies themselves. Then > decided to try red hat, not wanting to go back clear to potato in debian and > feeling adventurous. great documentation of the install with speakup, btw. Cdrom > sounded like an airplane starting off the runway but then like one landing and > turning off engines; must not be set up to boot from cdrom? though floppy is. > Can't use floppies because cdrom and floppy drive are interchangeable; I hear > that may eventually be solvable by getting a cable for the floppy drive for > external; not sure about that. Went ahead and installed DOS with speech since > i'd > already partitioned with debian. Unfortunately still can't install Red Hat from > hard drive because I have no way to get the raw .iso files onto my hard drive. > Was > able to get my cdrom going in DOS with a generic cdrom driveer: oakcdrom.sys. > Are there any other alternatives for doing an install I haven't thought > of, and is there any way to change the boot sequence with the thinkpad utilities > like I did the serial port? Also, when I finally do get this running, if I > decide to install red hat, is there any way to not have Disk Druid mess up my > partitions? > In other words, will I still have to go through and put in mount > points or is there a way just to get it to recognize and use the partitions > and mount points that have been done and go on from there? > Really enjoying my thinkpad, btw. > > Thanks. > > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >