Hi Janina, Sigh. I take it no progress has been made on the mirror yet right? I was planning on getting this done this weekend but at this point, the download speeds being what they are, I'm not sure if that's possible any longer. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 6:04 PM Subject: Re: instalation problem-- was Re: fc3 download > Unfortunately, this problem you've stumbled into is all too common, > especially for people installing for the first time. > > If you already have Linux, you can run what's called an md5sum check on > the downloaded image files, and also on your burned disks. This is the > only sure way to tell you haven't mixed versions--and it's extremely > important not to mix versions as you've now discovered. > > If you can't run md5sum, for example because you only have Windows now, > you can certainly look at the iso file byte size and date stamps. That > should indicate whether or not you've mixed versions. > > I'm very sorry, but you'll need to get a complete set in order to > install successfully. > > Al Puzzuoli writes: >> Hi all, >> i'm having a problem and I'm not sure whether I'm hosed or if there's a >> way >> to continue without redownloading everything. >> >> After downloading the majority of FC3 from the site John has so kindly >> made >> available, I thought I was ready to start my install. However, before I >> knew about John's site, I downloaded some of the isos from linux-speakup, >> and I don't remember now which isos I got from which site. At the time, I >> assumed they were the same version. >> >> At any rate, after I burned my disks, the first problem I noticed was >> that >> for some reason, my disk 1 wasn't bootable. I then burned the boot.iso >> image from that disk, which booted fine. I thought I was off and >> running, >> the install asked me all of its questions and began chugging along on >> disk >> 1. However, it then asked for disk 2. I put in what should have been >> disk >> 2 and was told "wrong cd-rom". >> >> So, now what? I don't know if the isos on John's site are a different >> version, or if one of the disk 2 isos is really not disk 2, or if I got a >> bad download of something... grumble! >> >> Is there a way to identify the disks and/or versions by looking at the >> directories? >> >> >> >> Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >