2.2R6 Speakup ISO

[Gregory Nowak]

Can't he start from a winxp boot disk, get a command prompt, and then run rawrite?
Greg


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:06:12PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. The problem in his case is that winblows xp won't give him explicit access to the floppy drive, saying that the floppy controler has failed. As a result, he can't access the drive from a cmd prompt. And he doesn't currently have a machine running w98 from which he could boot into real mode dos. He could possibly use winwrite. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Erik Heil <eheil at rcn.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:01 PM
> Subject: Re: 2.2R6 Speakup ISO
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for the suggestion. i'm currently running Windoes XP and can't
> > successfully create the boot disk using rawrite. But Thanks for the
> > suggestion. BTW, are their any plans to update the ISO with at least the
> > current kernels from kernerl.org?  Or are we going to just use Woody?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: 2.2R6 Speakup ISO
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi, Erik:
> > >
> > > You can boot from a special floppy. The images for creating the
> > > bootable floppy are on the first CD ROM in the /images directory.
> > > The tools you can use to create the bootable floppy are in a
> > > directory on the first CD ROM called /dosutils.
> > >
> > > The image you need to use is probably boot.img. To be sure, you
> > > might want to follow our guide on installation available at:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html
> > >
> > > Good luck, and don't hesitate to ask for help.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi everyone.  I recently obtained and downloaded the ISO containing
> > Speakup pre-compiled into it.  However, I'm unable to boot from the CD.
> > Note that this machine's BIOS does support booting off the CD.  Do any of
> > you have any suggestions?  BC I'm anxious to get Linux on this box and
> > totally do away with the NTFS filesystem which presently occupies one of the
> > two HD's.  The second is just a standard FAT filesystem.  This is a 166MHZ
> > box with 64MB of RAM and one 1.6 and one 2.6GZ HD.  Thanks for any help that
> > anyone of you could provide.  This also has an internal DoubleTalk PC coard.
> > To write the ISO's, I used EZ CD Creator under Windblows.
> > > > --Erik
> > > >
> > > > God Bless,
> > > > Erik
> > > > <eheil at rcn.com>
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
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