help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Gregory Nowak]

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I see. Let's go back a bit then. What did you do to get the install to
start?

What you should have done is to put the debian netinst cd into the
cd-rom drive, and reboot your machine. If you at that point got the
invalid disk error, or whatever error you got, you should have then
rebooted, gone into cmos, and checked if you have a boot from cd
option in the cmos menus. If you do, then that should have been set to
boot before the hard drive. What I do on my systems is to set the boot
order to cd-rom, floppy, first hard drive. Then, you should have saved
the settings, and tried again. If that didn't work, then I have to
conclude that perhaps for some reason your machine can't boot from
cd-rom. However, if the machine originally came with win98 installed,
then it is most likely new enough to be able to boot from cd-rom.

However, if it can't boot from cd-rom, then you'll need to find a
floppy image with smart boot manager in it, and write that out to a
floppy.

If you didn't do things in that way, then maybe you should tell us in
detail exactly what you did, so that we can make suggestions as to
where you should go from here.

Greg


On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:53:30PM -0700, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> 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...

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