Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Janina. He is refering to the Debian Cd, just forgot to specify it in the post. I know because I have talked to him at length about this, and I also experienced the same problem. As a result, I ended up installing my system from a Dos batchfile.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.


> 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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