Re: ZipSpeak and talling it what drive to use

["Reinhard Stebner" <raydar clearsail net>]

I followed what your suggestion was, and this is the error message I
received from Lenix.

partition check:
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
Kernel panic: VSF: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01

I am trying to get ZipSpeak to run on a windows 98 second addition with two
hard drive.  The hard drive I have ZipSpeak on is c under the subdirectory
of lenix.  I do not have smartdrv on, I remmed that lind out of the
autoexec.  I have not screen reader or braille device running.  This machine
is a pent 333 with 128 meg of ram and a 30 gig hard drive where lenix is on.

Any ideas on how to get this beast to run?  It speaks good, but just does
not get to the prompt.  After the above message is displayed, there is a
blind line, and then nothing.

Here is another problem.  When using the boot images given as part of the
talking portion of ZipSpeak.  I was able to make the boot disk, but when I
put the disk in the drive, reboot the computer, it reads the drive for about
a second and the pc beeps.  I do not know what is says since I am blind.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Campbell" <mattcamp crosswinds net>
To: <blinux-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: ZipSpeak and talling it what drive to use


> Here is my attempt to explain the hard disk naming system under Linux.
>
> Under Linux, disk drives and partitions are not referred to by a
> single letter, but by a device file name.  All file names start with
> "/dev/", and there is a certain naming system which describes the
> drive and the partition.  I'll try to make this clear with a few
> examples:
>
> /dev/hda1:  the first partition on the first I D E hard drive (the
> "C:" drive on most PC's)
> /dev/hdb5:  the first extended partition on the second I D E hard
> drive (not very common)
> /dev/sda2:  the second partition on the first SCSI hard drive
>
> And so on.  The first letter after the "/dev/" is h for an I D E drive
> (the kind used in most PC's) or s for a SCSI drive.  The next letter
> for all hard drives is d.  Then the next letter indicates which hard
> drive this is.  Finally, the disk partition is indicated by a number.
> Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4, and extended partitions
> have numbers of 5 and higher.
>
> So now you can make an informed guess about what device file name to
> put into the command in the linux.bat file that loads Linux.  If you
> installed Linux on the C drive, try "/dev/hda1".  If it's on a D
> drive, try "/dev/hda2" or maybe "/dev/hda5".
>
> I hope this helps,
> Matt
>
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