help with install of debian and speakup!?

[BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net]

Ty!
do you have a debian boot cd or boot floppy in the system when you  
start it?
On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> thats what I set it to, and I still get this invalid system disk  
> thing...
> its like it wants windows 98 back. lol
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lorenzo Taylor" <lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net>
> 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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>> Somewhere in your BIOS settings there should be a boot order menu  
>> or else
>> entries for first boot device, second boot device, etc.  Be sure your
>> floppy and
>> CD drives, in whatever order you like, boot before your hard  
>> drive.  If
>> there is
>> no OS on your hard drive and your floppy and/or CD drive doesn't  
>> attemp to
>> boot
>> first, you will get error messages and it will be impossible to  
>> install
>> the OS
>> of your choice.  Some BIOS's allow booting from another device if  
>> the hard
>> drive
>> fails, but I can't guarantee that they all do.  Your best bet is  
>> to have
>> both
>> your floppy and CD drives boot before the hard drive.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Lorenzo
>> - --
>> Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint.
>> -- Mark Twain
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