And you properly created a bootable cd? ----- Original Message ----- From: <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup > Hi I don't know if this is an appropriate thread on which to discuss this > on, but the netinst Cd would not boot and I seem to get no response either > from the CD or when i typed in the speakup command at the boot prompt. I > have set the bios on my pc to boot up with my Cd drive, so I can't exactly > be sure what is really happening here. Fedora and slackware, for example > did spin during the boot up and after the text commands for each was typed > in, but i got no response from the debian netinst CD at all, no spinning to > speak off. Don't know what to do next. Cheers! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "Speakup Distribution List" > <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:47 PM > Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:05:03 AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > >> The disk installs Sarge/testing, but Sarge is no longer testing, since > >> it was promoted to stable on June 6. Testing is now called something > >> else. So what do I get if I now do an install with that CD? Do I get > >> Sarge/stable? or the new testing? Will there be an opportunity to > >> specify which I want during the install? perhaps by dropping to a shell > >> prompt and editing something? I will be doing two more installations > >> later this week and hope to avoid surprises. > > > > Short answer: If you have the 3.1r0a CD just install it and it'll work. > > > > Long answer: I think the answer depends on exactly which revision of the > > netinst-speakup cd you have. If you downloaded it a while back you might > > have a copy that was for the testing ditribution, but if you have the > > 3.1r0a version then what you have is for stable. You can of course edit > > /etc/apt/sources.list after you install and specify > > stable/testing/unstable or sarge/etch/sid whichever you prefer. As an > > interesting note, according to the debian top brass who are supposed to > > know about these things, changing entries in /etc/apt/sources.list is > > not the canonical way to choose which version you are running. I am not > > completely clear on the details, but it looks like you can have all > > three of stable, testing, and unstable listed in sources.list and then > > choose the default release you want by putting the line > > APT::Default-Release "stable"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. This file will not > > exist by default. I think this might be a good idea because it allows > > you to run selected packages from testing or unstable while keeping the > > bulk of your system running stable. It is rather an advanced option, so > > as the saying goes "if you break it you get to keep all the pieces." > > > > - -- > > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFCtqzd5JK61UXLur0RA4WJAJ4h7DE6zPXsoRIXs0ZQd2hZURrzngCbBx9W > > tv/kn+eJlDdcEThdSo2cHk4= > > =ism0 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
