Gregory is correct. There are systems which boot disk one, and others which cannot boot from disk one. The solution is to create a disk expressly for the purpose of booting. To create this boot disk, use the iso image under images/boot.iso on the first disk. Second point: John, please run an md5sum check on the images at jamsite. md5sum -c MD5SUM Gregory Nowak writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I seem to recall that there were posts some time back on the list > indicating that disc1 of fc3 didn't boot on some machines, and did > boot on others. So, it maybe that there's nothing wrong with John's > images, and your machine may be one of those that won't boot the first > disc. Perhaps someone using fc3 who posted on this earlier, or knows > something about the problem will clarify this. > > Greg > > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:15:07PM -0500, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > > Hi john, > > > > Again, thanks very much for posting these and allowing those of us on the > > list access to them. At this point though, I think I'm going to download > > the regular FC3 isos and do a BRLTTY install. I'll worry about speakup > > after the fact. At this point, I think this will be the quickest solution. > > > > If you get a chance though, you might want to check your disk 1 image, as > > there seems to be a problem in that it isn't bootable for some reason. As > > I said, I downloaded several images from your site and several from the > > main ftp site. However, the sum of disk1 didn't match the one on the main > > ftp so I'm assuming I got that one from you. > > The sum of the one i have that isn't booting is: > > d016692cfde7456c6ca021b879833903 > > > > > > Thanks again, > > > > --Al > > > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCIToc7s9z/XlyUyARAkV+AJ0a6DMYcv0gJvwHDlS9zxGRjov1BACZAVFi > yWmcg8jrBOj/+HQca641yP8= > =2UiC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
