thats how I did things. Now, I am sitting with a dos prompt on my screen, and I see drive f, (probably the one with the debian cd) and drive g, probably my cd burner. Is there a way I can start the install from here? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I see. Let's go back a bit then. What did you do to get the install to > start? > > What you should have done is to put the debian netinst cd into the > cd-rom drive, and reboot your machine. If you at that point got the > invalid disk error, or whatever error you got, you should have then > rebooted, gone into cmos, and checked if you have a boot from cd > option in the cmos menus. If you do, then that should have been set to > boot before the hard drive. What I do on my systems is to set the boot > order to cd-rom, floppy, first hard drive. Then, you should have saved > the settings, and tried again. If that didn't work, then I have to > conclude that perhaps for some reason your machine can't boot from > cd-rom. However, if the machine originally came with win98 installed, > then it is most likely new enough to be able to boot from cd-rom. > > However, if it can't boot from cd-rom, then you'll need to find a > floppy image with smart boot manager in it, and write that out to a > floppy. > > If you didn't do things in that way, then maybe you should tell us in > detail exactly what you did, so that we can make suggestions as to > where you should go from here. > > Greg > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:53:30PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> BTW, its not with the install of linux that I am having the problem, I >> don't >> see how the docs are helping. I read them, and they jump into >> installation >> and stuff.. that would be good for me, if I could get the install to >> start. >> but as I can't get past these prompts... > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDyYVX7s9z/XlyUyARAsgTAKCt7OYtl6yZJCvyciNNXbSWAM7NnQCdE3EV > LyzysL7Zlxp/Sdgqvc7mHnI= > =qTvg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
