help with install of debian and speakup!?

[BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net]

dude!
Your trippen.
remember google?
atlest that is what you told everyone on the programming list.
You totally don't understand what your doing. hell, half the time I  
don't know what the hell I',m doing. it takes read, learning reading  
some more and trial and error. at least is has for me and I'm been  
doing this computer gig for 12 years and got three certifications. I  
know it understand it, but i don't know it all and it just takes  
comprehensive reading my man.
On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> 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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>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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