help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Tyler Littlefield]

OK, I reset the bios with the jumper, and restored defaults, every time I 
restart, I got rid of that invalid disk error, but now I see invalid system 
disk. Is there a floppy disk or something that will give me a linux-bootable 
partition?
Also, how do I know if this computer will boot from cds? is there a way to 
get a floppy to start the install? I think there is still some dos installed 
on there.
Thanks,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?


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> Well, if you did what you described, then windows is in fact gone, and
> the message you're getting is in fact from the system bios. I don't
> understand what you mean when you say you want to install debian over
> windows 98, there is no such thing. You either install win98, or
> debian, but you can't install one over the other.
>
> If you want win98 on your system, then you'll have to reinstall it
> now, or restore a backup if you took the time to make one. If you want
> to install debian, then you'll need to get rid of the fat32 partition,
> and repartition the drive with a linux partition, and linux swap would
> be recommended too.
>
> If you're going to install debian, then take the time to read the
> extensive documentation for it at http://www.debian.org. This applies
> to any gnu/linux distribution, not just debian. Also, the installation
> procedure varies from distro to distro, so don't expect that just
> because you now know how to install debian, that you'll also be able
> to install slackware, fedora, ETC. in the same way. What you know
> about how debian installs may make it easier for you to install
> another distribution, but that's not a substitute for the other
> distro's documentation. Gnu/linux isn't windows, where you can expect
> to just pop the install cd in, and be installing it in 30 seconds
> without ever having read a manual.
>
> Greg
>
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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:10:46AM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hay list,
>> I am trying to install speakup over an old copy of windows 98. I put in 
>> the boot disk, and booted to it. I did format c: /u, and things went 
>> good. now, when I take the disk out, I get diskett error, and I hit 
>> escape to continu, and it asks for a system disk, and won't do a thing 
>> until I have a system disk. It looks as if windows 98 isn't totally gone. 
>> Is there a way to get rid of this? I tried to find where in my bios that 
>> it was that you would set the drie boot order, dac I think it was, and... 
>> still no luck there either.
>> Thanks,
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