bootdisk problems

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

My best guess is that the disks you had were a little older than what are 
there now.  Did you get a 2.4.18-5spk kernel?




          Bill


On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Pratik Patel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for that URL.  I tried the same one.  I took the images I tried
> from there.  It still refuses to take it.  Were the images updated when the
> last changes made to the installation images?  that could be the problem.
> 
> The FTP links do not work when chosen from the web site.  but they do when
> we go directly to them.
> 
> I was able to solve my problem by writing the first installation disk image
> to a cdr/w disk and taking the image from there.
> 
> thank you for your help though.
> 
> Pratik Patel
> Managing Director
> CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Borowski" <brianb at braille.uwo.ca>
> To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: bootdisk problems
> 
> 
> > There seems to be a problem with ftp URLS for linux-speakuorg, they don't
> > work, unless it's me only having the problem.  Anyone else experiencing
> the
> > same thing; I.E. an error when trying to access URLs like:
> > ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub
> > although, this only happens with lynx, using a basic ftp client, I can get
> > in as usual?
> >
> > Brian Borowski
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry about that!
> > > ftp://linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/7.3/our_floppies/
> > > That should get you going.  Any questions, call or write.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >            Bill in Denver
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Pratik Patel wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I just downloaded the speakup-modified RH 7.3 iso files and placed
> them in
> > > > my windows root folder.  Then I downloaded the speakup-modified
> bootdisk
> > > > img and the rawwritewin program.  I created the disk with the program
> and
> > > > the image.  When I attempt to install rh7.3 with the disk it gives me
> a
> > > > faliure message, saying that the bootdisk does not match  the current
> isos.
> > > >
> > > > I've downloaded all the necessary isos.  Has anyone encountered this
> > > > problem?  If so, are there any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Pratik Patel
> > > > Managing Director
> > > > CUNY Assistive Technology Services
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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