Debian netinst CD with speakup

[Sean McMahon]

And you properly created a bootable cd?
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From: <jaffar at jeffstudio.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup


> Hi I don't know if this is an appropriate thread on which to discuss this 
> on, but the netinst Cd would not boot and I seem to get no response either 
> from the CD or when i typed in the speakup command at the boot prompt.  I 
> have set the bios on my pc to boot up with my Cd drive, so I can't exactly 
> be sure what is really happening here.  Fedora and slackware, for example 
> did spin during the boot up and after the text commands for each was typed 
> in, but i got no response from the debian netinst CD at all, no spinning to 
> speak off.  Don't know what to do next.  Cheers!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "Speakup Distribution List" 
> <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup
> 
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> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:05:03 AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >> The disk installs Sarge/testing, but Sarge is no longer testing, since
> >> it was promoted to stable on June 6. Testing is now called something
> >> else. So what do I get if I now do an install with that CD? Do I get
> >> Sarge/stable? or the new testing? Will there be an opportunity to
> >> specify which I want during the install? perhaps by dropping to a shell
> >> prompt and editing something? I will be doing two more installations
> >> later this week and hope to avoid surprises.
> >
> > Short answer: If you have the 3.1r0a CD just install it and it'll work.
> >
> > Long answer: I think the answer depends on exactly which revision of the
> > netinst-speakup cd you have. If you downloaded it a while back you might
> > have a copy that was for the testing ditribution, but if you have the
> > 3.1r0a version then what you have is for stable. You can of course edit
> > /etc/apt/sources.list after you install and specify
> > stable/testing/unstable or sarge/etch/sid whichever you prefer. As an
> > interesting note, according to the debian top brass who are supposed to
> > know about these things, changing entries in /etc/apt/sources.list is
> > not the canonical way to choose which version you are running. I am not
> > completely clear on the details, but it looks like you can have all
> > three of stable, testing, and unstable listed in sources.list and then
> > choose the default release you want by putting the line
> > APT::Default-Release "stable"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. This file will not
> > exist by default. I think this might be a good idea because it allows
> > you to run selected packages from testing or unstable while keeping the
> > bulk of your system running stable. It is rather an advanced option, so
> > as the saying goes "if you break it you get to keep all the pieces."
> >
> > - -- 
> > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> >
> > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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