Hi Janina, I understand about the possibilities of creating a firewall with RedHat or nay other Linux, and of locking things down. It just all depends on what you are planning to do with your Linux box. I tend to use them for servers, so I don't want to lock it completely down... :-) OK; here's what I did. I downloaded the boot.img file from the redhat/7.2 directory of the linux-speakup.org FTP site. I just downloaded the boot.img, not the RedHat ISO files, since I had already burned a set of RedHat 7.2 CDs. Did Bill actually modify the contents of the RedHat distro itself? Do I need those ISO files in order for this to work correctly? OK, once I dwonloaded the boot.img file, I used the following dd command to create a boot floppy: dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k This seemed to work; I observed no errors. On the target machine, I inserted the newly created boot disk and the first RedHat 7.2 CD, and rebooted the machine. The machine booted from the floppy; I have no idea what was on the screen... :-) At this point, I typed the following to install using the Accent PC speech ysnthesizer: text speakup_synth=acntpc After pressing enter, I heard some disk activity which eventually stopped, but never any speech... :-) Do you have nay good ideas? Thanks. On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > Darrell: > > What happens with the modified RH boot disks and the Accent? > Specifically, can you describe the process and what happens? > > Let me say that I have installed several systems for several people using > a variety of speech synths both in the U.S. and in the U.K. in the past > two weeks using precisely these boot disks without a hitch. > > As for the exposure to hacking, the Redhat installation includes the > configuration of a firewall. If you pay attention in that part of the > process you can, among other options, fully lock the machine down against > any incoming traffic. If you're not careful, though, you can leave one > interface fully open while locking down another. To that end, it is > important to read and understand the Redhat installation help messages > and/or the installation manual available for online reading or for > download at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/. > > Bill's site is no longer the preferred place for downloading either the > Redhat kernel RPMS or the full Redhat iso images which Bill modifies with > speakup. This is a good thing because Bill's net connection was getting > overloaded from all the interest in these files. They are now available on > the speakup site, which has a much larger pipe to the net, via anonymous > ftp at > www.linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/. They are definitely > there--I just checked. But use ftp and not http, as the revamped web pages > are still not quite correct on the speakup site. > > On Thu, 6 Dec > 2001, Darrell Shandrow wrote: > > > Hi Jude, > > > > Yeah; DSL is even less secure than dial-up, especially with a static IP > > address. But, if your system is solid, and you keep all the doors closed > > you want, you should be relatively safe. > > > > The RedHat boot disks are available on the linux-speakup.org FTP site, but > > they don't work, at least the RH 7.2 boot image does not seem to work for > > the Accent PC. > > > > Regards. > > > > At 07:36 PM 12/6/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > >I'm rather certain I lost the patched red hat 7.0 kernel file for speakup. > > >Right now, I have red hat 7.0 somewhat verbal on my computer with > > >doubletalk synthesier. I just got in the mail red hat 7.2 boxed set so > > >I'm also going to need an updated boot disk and the kernel patch file for > > >doubletalk and red hat 7.2 so I can do the upgrade. I've been under the > > >radar for quite a while since my linux system that was on a dial up > > >account got hacked. linsniffer was put onto my computer since one of the > > >server doors was open that oughtn't have been for single home users and > > >the hacker got in that way. That sniffer has a web page at > > >http://www.attrition.org. I don't know that dsl will be anymore secure, > > >but I got me a modem and an account with verizon so am going to find out. > > >The speakup mirror disk link for red hat 6.2 7.0 and 7.2 so far as I can > > >tell is broken and generates an error 404 so I'm wondering if these files > > >are available on the internet now. Last I heard Bill Hacker's ftp site > > >was shut down so ftp.octothorp.org isn't an option now. > > > > > > > > >Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > >Blinux-list@redhat.com > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > >