help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Ok, I don't understand why you're resetting the bios. Going that route
just complicates things because you're now going from hardware that
you knew worked properly, to hardware which may or may not be working
properly now due to perhaps misconfigured cmos settings. I'll say this
again, go read debian's install docs. They're very well written,
almost to the point of repeatedly beleaguering every point from the perspective of
someone like myself, who has an idea of what he/she is doing.

As for if your machine can boot from cd-rom, there should be a boot
from cd option in your cmos setup. If not, you might be able to use
smart boot manager, for which I don't remember the url right now, to
boot from cd using a floppy disk. There are debian boot floppies, but
some recent posts to this list suggested that they're not
speakup-enabled.

Again, I can't say this enough, go read the docs.

Greg


On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:56:22PM -0700, 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,

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