Listen up, dudes and dudettes! I don't know why Thomas had a problem
booting from a floppy, maybe a bad disk, but as I said in a previous post,
RH uses one kernel for all the installation methods. I installed two
systems using a floppy, Janina as done one, and Maurice has installed one.
HTH.
Bill
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Bear in SFO wrote:
>
> I wonder what happens if someone still uses one of those old dinoseur that
> can't boot from a CD (me!)
>
> At 02:27 AM 10/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi, Greg. The solution was actually pretty simple. What I did was asked my
> >dad to help me switch the bios to boot off the cdrom.
> >Then, at the boot prompt I typed:
> >linux text speakup_synth=dectlk
> >Then, the 8.0 setup took off with speech.
> >I'm still unsure why the floppy setup disk didn't work, but at least I do
> >know that booting from the cdrom and running setup there will work with
> >speech under Red Hat 8.0.
> >
> >
> >
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