I can deal with it. How hard are these floppies to get for deb? Thanks, Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ [My programs don't have bugs; just randomly added features] msn: compgeek13 at gmail.com aim: st8amnd2005 skype: st8amnd127 vertigo head coder web: tysdomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:08 PM Subject: Re: moving from amd to p3? > If you can wait for the network download, sure you can do a > net install. There is a way to do this on most distros these days. > I have done it on debian, redhat, and slackware for sure. Get > the network install boot image and let it go, it will take a long > time though. > > Tyler said. > Is there any way I can just install like debian with a really old kernel, > like off flyppy, then use apt to upgrade? > > It's not that you'd need an old kernel, just a generic one, > basically the same bare ones that are used when doing the > initial install. But as I said in other message, if you are > getting disk boot failure, then something else is wrong. > A different kernel will not fix that. Check the connections > and if you can, check the BIOS drive settings. If there is > another drive in there, take it out for now and boot with > just the new drive. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
