not working yet

[Bruce Noblick]

Hi all!

I appreciate the time that everyone has spent helping me on this.  This
machine is a Compaq presario -- I don't know the model number,  600 mhz, 128
mb ram, 20 gig hard drive, dvd reader, cd writer, built in modem, NIC card,
sound blaster live and pentium 3 processor..

I forgot one other thing I did while someone was here to watch this weekend.
I have the 6 disk set debian distribution and I discovered that my machine
was capable of booting from CD-ROM.  I put the first Debian disk in and
booted and got prompts for keyboard and hard drive partitioning stuff like I
would have expected so I think the machine is basicly allright.  I don't
know if any of this helps much.

Enjoy!
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Carmickle" <frankiec at braille.uwo.ca>
To: "speakup-info" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: not working yet


> Hi Bruce.
>
> What machine is this?  This is a kernel configuration problem I do
> believe.  If you could give me the make of the machine, or, if it is a
> self built machine, which processor and chipset that is on the
> motherboard?  We will get this working.  Sorry you have had such problems.
>
> FC
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Bruce Noblick wrote:
>
> > I have tried four things, one of which is suggested here.
> >
> > 1.  Download with ftp in binary mode to my system at work, split and
> > transfer the files to diskette, reassemble them at home and run install
from
> > MSDOS mode.  I had someone to watch the screen.   It started expanding
files
> > and ran into a CRC error and halted.  I think it was trying to do
something
> > with root.bin.
> > 2.  I looked more carefully at the options during download with internet
> > explorer.  There is a combo box with two choices: document and all
files.  I
> > decided to experiment with the all files choice.  I discovered that most
of
> > the .bin and .img files had the default set to document.  In all
subsequent
> > steps, I made sure that it was set to all files for these.  For .zip and
> > .EXE files, the default setting seemed to work properly.  I checked this
> > choice on every subsequent download to make sure that it looked like a
> > binary download would take place.
> > 3.  I took a suggestion to try downloading zipspeak.  I did and it
worked.
> > I was asked for a login.  I did not know where to go from there so I
entered
> > root and got a command prompt.  Ctrl-alt-del shut the system down
> > wonderfully but I had to turn it off and on to get back to MSDOS.
> > 4.  I tried downloading debian again and it did not work..  I did not
have
> > anyone available to look at the screen.  While I did, I dug around in
the
> > BIOS settings and didn't find much of anything worthy of note.
> >
> > I don't have much of an idea where to go with this from here.  I am
> > reasonably sure I am downloading properly, I am also reasonably certain
that
> > the system will work with linux since zipspeak worked.  I am not sure
what
> > else to try.  Thanks much for all the help up to this point and I hope
soon
> > to get to a point with this that I don't have to ask so many questions.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > Bruce
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
> > To: "Bruce Noblick" <bnoblick at columbus.rr.com>
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: not working yet
> >
> >
> > > Bruce,
> > >
> > > One catch if you are using the ftp program that comes in windows. Be
sure
> > > to set the transfer to bianary with the command "bin". It is easily
> > > overlooked. That and most programs will automatically choose the
corect
> > > mode. But MS chose to not impliment that feature and it will download
via
> > > text mode ruining the bianary files. (Downloading text via bianary
doesn't
> > > seem to cause any harm though.)
> > >
> > > =======
> > > Kirk Wood
> > > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
> > >
> > > Cluelessness
> > > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> > > inquisitive idiots
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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