Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Sat May 18 14:54:17 EDT 2002


On Sat, 18 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote:

> I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
> CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server. 

This doesn't make sense, but I suspect you're speaking of the
Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. If not, don't bother with
the rest of this message.

There is a problem booting from CD ROM with the latest version of
the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. This problem is known
and has been discussed at length on the Speakup list about a week
ago. A fix is in the works.

Meanwhile, there are a couple of workarounds:

1.)	If you can boot from a floppy, do so but be sure to not
let the system see the CD ROM as you boot. Keep it out of your
drive, or just keep the drive open until prompted to indicate
what media contains the boot images.

2.)	Create a bootable CD ROM with nothing on it except the
floppy boot image from the images directory. Boot with this disk,
and swap to the first installation CD ROM when prompted as above.

3.)	First create three iso files on your hard disk using dd,
one for each of the CD ROMs. Then boot with either a floppy or a
bootable CD ROM as described above, and point the installer to
the appropriate drive partition and directory when prompted.








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