help with install of debian and speakup!?

[BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net]

lol! this is your standard bios error when youu are not bootable off  
a valid boot media, weather it abe a boot cd, floppy, or hdd with an  
os on it. obviously since you formatted your hdd your only other  
choices is a linux boot floppy which hopefully let you install via  
ftp, or a set of install cds.
On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> I checked the docs, but I didn't see a whole lot on my error...
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> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."  
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> 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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