help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Tyler Littlefield]

BTW, its not with the install of linux that I am having the problem, I don't 
see how the docs are helping. I read them, and they jump into installation 
and stuff.. that would be good for me, if I could get the install to start. 
but as I can't get past these prompts...
----- 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 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?


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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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