Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

[Luke Davis]

The ethernet howto has a section on finding oddball cards.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Janina Sajka wrote:

> No, I didn't do that. It's not necessary on Red Hat, so I didn't even
> think of it.
>
> And, I don't know as I'd have a compatible system for it? My only
> working Debian box is an Alpha processor. The machine I'm building is an
> older Pentium.
>
> By the way, it isn't detecting my PCI ethernet card. That's too bad,
> because I don't recall it's type. It's something I picked up at a show
> for $5.
>
> One step at a time, I guess.
>
> Gregory Nowak writes:
> > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> >
> > After editingsyslinux.cfg,did you run/usr/local/bin/syslinuxon your system, with the name of your floppy image or/dev/fd0as the argument to the syslinux binary?
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net
> > >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > >Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:36:21 -0400
> > >Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?
> >
> > >Thanks, Luke.
> >
> > >It's chattering now, so I guess I'm on my way installing.
> >
> > >Where was I stuck? I tried to hand edit syslinux.cfg to add
> > >xpeakup_synth=XXX, noting that "linux" was the default kernel. I
> > >doublechecked and didn't find errors.
> >
> > >So, I re-imaged the resc1440.bin floppy and entered 'boot
> > >speakup_synth=dtlk' by hand.
> >
> > >Search me. I should think the other would also have worked, but that's
> > >academic to me at this point.
> >
> > >PS: I did look at the docs before posting. There's nothing at all in the
> > >woody directory--except the warning to not select any keymap whatsoever.
> > >And, of course the Debian docs don't refer to a Speakup option--not that
> > >the process is all that different from other distros.
> >
> >
> >
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