Hi Mike, Well it seems oralux is a talking distro which looks very interesting. www.oralux.org Also tried to look at your web site but did not work. Nigel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Gorse" <mgorse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: Re: Use text mode (was: Newbie > Additionally, installers typically use C libraries that are stripped down > in some way so that they don't take as much space, so it may be necessary > to compile a program in a special way for it to work on the install disk. > Statically linking the binary would be an option, but then it will be > larger. In any case, it may be easier to do installs with speakup than > yasr if you have a synth that Speak-up supports. (Actually, I think that > Kirk was trying to work on getting a software synthesizer into Speak-up, > but I have no idea how much progress he has made on that). > > Still, it should be possible to enable software-based speech on an > installation cd provided the sound card gets autodetected and configured > correctly, but I don't know of any such cds that have been created so far. > > -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- > A better world is possible! http://www.kucinich.us > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > > Hi. The binary for yasr is only 39K or so, but you can't just stick it on a > > floppy disk. It expects to find files in several directories on the > > system. If you wanted to use it to install Linux, you would need to > > build a version of your distro's installer with it added. That's not a > > simple task. Since there's only so much room available for the > > installer, you will have to understand all the details of the distro to > > decide what you can leav out or replace. > > DOS was probably the last OS where you could just copy a program to a > > floppy and expect it to work. > > > etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list