Re: upgrading from rh 8.0 to 9 with speech, and gnopernicus

"Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 1 Aug 2003 07:43:30 -0700

Hi Brent,

Agreed.  I am very disappointed that we do not 
yet have a Speakup modified distribution set of RH 9 as we did for versions of 
RH 7.  There is a way to do it through telnet, but you must have a DHCP 
server to assign the IP address, etc.  I can write a fairly detailed 
explanation of how I accomplished the feat, but I'll have to do that for you 
over the weekend.

Thanks.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Brent 
  Harding 
  To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:07 
  AM
  Subject: Re: upgrading from rh 8.0 to 9 
  with speech, and gnopernicus

  Wow! I guess the 8 bootdisk won't go to http down 
  9. The name of the first image it needs is different, i guess, wonder how I'll 
  get this updated? Sighted assistance is no option.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: 
    Brent 
    Harding 
    To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:08 
    AM
    Subject: upgrading from rh 8.0 to 9 
    with speech, and gnopernicus

        Is it OK to use my rh 8.0 network boot installer disk to 
    upgrade to 9.0, so I have speech through the process? I understand I have to 
    install the kernel RPM to have speakup, but I don't have another system to 
    do it by telnet. (I hope to be getting a Pac Mate soon, as state rehab 
    purchased one for me, as I decided that I thought it's better than the 
    braille note because of connectivity, and that you can use audible.com and 
    other Pocket PC apps that the bn doesn't allow for. Does it have an 
    accessible telnet client so I could pull the install off that way, or should 
    I just use the rh 8.0 bootnet.img and point the http to the appropriate 
    directory for 9 on redhat's server? I may give it a try anyways, sort of 
    updated some gnu stuff manually to attempt gnopernicus, but am having 
    trouble with glib and gtk and autoconf and cspi, and other stuff like that. 
    What would I need to do to 9 to prepare for gnopernicus to install? I have 
    the script someone sent, errors out on 8.0, think I need to ad the all 
    important
    #!/bin/sh
    line to the top, but the compiles error out on 
    8.0, choking on autoconf not being the right version when trying to compile 
    gtk or glib, since gnopernicus needs a later lib than 8.0 
    provides.
    Thanks.