Slackware 8.0 install error

[Gregory Nowak]

Maybe, but I'm not sure, since I actually never had a chance to use one like that.
Greg


On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:31:48PM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> Gregory,
> Thanks for the tip but I have no idea.  How would I go about finding
> this out.  Right now Windows is still installed on the computer so could
> I find that info out in the Device Manager or something?
> I am going to try making new floppies first and I will post how that
> works out.
> Thanks.
> Rodney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 11:22 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Slackware 8.0 install error
> 
> 
> Do you know if this machine has a ibm microchannel bus? If it does, then
> you'll need someone to cook up a speakup kernel for that architecture.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:59:53PM -0500, Rodney wrote:
> > Well I reluctantly got some sighted assistance to see what my problem 
> > is during the install.  The boot disk took 4 minutes 34 seconds to get
> 
> > to the root floppy install prompt.  My Doubletalk LT did not start 
> > talking until the prompt appeared and then it read all of the messages
> 
> > up to the prompt. I installed the root floppy and pressed enter and 
> > got the following results.
> >  
> > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter.
> > vfs: insert root floppy and press enter
> > vfs: mounted root (minix file system) read only.
> > freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2547, limit=1440
> > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2546 sector=5092 size=1024 count=1 
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 02:1c: rw=0, want=2018, limit=1440
> > dev 02:1c blksize=1024 blocknr=2017 sector=4034 size=1024 count=1
> > init: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: can not open 
> > shared object file:input/output error
> > 
> >  
> >  
> > This computer is an IBM Aptiva
> > 275 mhz Pentium
> > 32 MB RAM
> >  
> > Please help.
> > Rodney
> 
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