Ty! do you have a debian boot cd or boot floppy in the system when you start it? On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: > thats what I set it to, and I still get this invalid system disk > thing... > its like it wants windows 98 back. lol > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Somewhere in your BIOS settings there should be a boot order menu >> or else >> entries for first boot device, second boot device, etc. Be sure your >> floppy and >> CD drives, in whatever order you like, boot before your hard >> drive. If >> there is >> no OS on your hard drive and your floppy and/or CD drive doesn't >> attemp to >> boot >> first, you will get error messages and it will be impossible to >> install >> the OS >> of your choice. Some BIOS's allow booting from another device if >> the hard >> drive >> fails, but I can't guarantee that they all do. Your best bet is >> to have >> both >> your floppy and CD drives boot before the hard drive. >> >> HTH, >> Lorenzo >> - -- >> Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. >> -- Mark Twain >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQFDyXyOG9IpekrhBfIRAvcoAJ9h7j9pxDG4qOjNdT8AQsXi1HnrOQCfcbG+ >> LQzWFehrjlEBYFFcetTf35s= >> =eZKs >> -----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
