help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Tyler Littlefield]

When i use the cd, it gives me the error, the only way I get anything 
besides the invalid system disk is if I have the 98 boot disk in there, and 
it gives me a dos prompt.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net" <blindtech at blindtechs.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?


> 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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