2.2R6 Speakup ISO

[Erik Heil]

Hi, Kenny.
I'm attempting to install Debian, not Redhat.  I would really appreciate it
if you or anyone could send me Winrite.  Also, would it be possible for
someone to update the boot disks with the 2.2.20 kernel?  I'm sure a lot of
people would appreciate that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenny Hitt" <khitt7 at comcast.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: 2.2R6 Speakup ISO


> Hi.  I think there is some confusion.  Are you trying to install Debian
> or Redhat?  My responses ar talking about Debian but Janina' is talking
> about Redhat.
>
> The latest kernel officially supported by potato is 2.2.20.  I am
> working on boot floppies for Woody, but there not ready yet.  Woody
> still hasn't been released yet, so any iso images are unofficial.
> You can upgrade from potato to woody with potato images during the
> install.
> There is a program to create floppies under Windows.  I believe it is
> called winwrite.  If you want, I'll try to find it and send it to you.
>
>          Kenny
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:01:20PM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> > 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>
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Janina Sajka, Director
> > > Technology Research and Development
> > > Governmental Relations Group
> > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > >
> > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > >
> > > Chair, Accessibility SIG
> > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> > > http://www.openebook.org
> > >
> > >
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