Hello to everyone

[Peter M. Konka]

Janina:

I was trying to do that on a set of CD's i created with the ISO images that 
i downlaoded at a friends house in boston.  The rawrite program was trying 
to create a boot.img diskette, but it said that there was a pproblem while 
trying to extract that image.

Now, Charlie downloaded the same exact ISO files, and i will try to create 
the bootable diskette, tommorrow, because today i forgot the CD's at the 
ACB office..


--- Peter Konka


At 05:21 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Does your laptop boot cd roms?
>Is this feature possibly disabled in CMOS?
>
>In any case:
>
>There'll be a directory on the CD ROM called images. In there you'll find
>a file called boot.img. That's the floppy disk image. You need to create a
>floppy using this image.
>
>To create a floppy using boot.img as the source image file, go to a DOS
>session. On the same CD ROM there's another directory called dosutils. In
>there, there's an executable called rawrite.exe This is for creating
>floppy disks under DOS.
>
>Caution: Turn off your screen reader while rawrite is creating a floppy.
>You may need to run it once just to get a sense of when you should turn
>your screen reader off, but you should turn it off or you run the risk of
>creating a bad floppy--one that's corrupted. So, waste one, but pay
>attention. Essentially, you need to answer two questions, where's the
>image you want to use, and where should it write it (A: for example).
>  On
>Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Peter M. Konka wrote:
>
> > I do know trhat the redhat linux cd disc 1 is bootable...  For some reason
> > it doesn't want to boot on my laptop...  I have created a second partition
> > buit i did not format it yet.  How should i go baout installing linux and
> > creating a boot disk for the cd and how do i do dual boot with my current
> > windows operating system?
> >
> > --- Peter
> >
> >
> > At 04:30 PM 8/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > >There are mainly a few key files difference between the speakup enabled
> > >and the default distros. You could really take care of it
> > >iteratively--it's just easier not to have to.
> > >
> > >Essentially, you really only need the speech enabled floppy disk image to
> > >boot your system. That will give you a speaking insta..
> > >
> > >Next, you need the kernels with speakup--not a small download, but much
> > >more manageable over 56K. This will get your system talking when you boot.
> > >
> > >Lastly, you need the speakup enabled keyboard--forget the exact
> > >filename--loadkeys, something like that.
> > >
> > >I'm sure someone will fill in here. It's probably a good short list to put
> > >up for folks who can't handle the megadownloads.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  On Thu, 23 Aug
> > >2001, Amanda Lee wrote:
> > >
> > > > Excellent Janina, I have notepad open here and am compiling my cheat
> > > > sheet.
> > > >
> > > > I just don't know that I  will be able to download CD images in my
> > > > lifetime at 56K for now!  Trying to get DSL but that's another story.
> > > >
> > > > Have plenty of CDR burning capability at home but no broad band 
> connection
> > > > at this point.
> > > >
> > > > I'm planning to go on vacation for a week.  Wonder if I started a 
> download
> > > > before I left if it would be finished in time when I get home hahaha!
> > > >
> > > > 650MB being the average to fillup a 74 minute CD,  Yeah could happen.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!  -  Amanda
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >                                 Janina Sajka, Director
> > >                                 Technology Research and Development
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> > >
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>                                 Janina Sajka, Director
>                                 Technology Research and Development
>                                 Governmental Relations Group
>                                 American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
>Email: janina at afb.net           Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
>Chair, Accessibility SIG
>Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
>http://www.openebook.org
>
>Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper,
>Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp
>
>Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther
>King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at
>http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp
>
>Learn how to make accessible software at
>http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
>
>
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