Hi I don't know about redhat's installation but I would hope that they would allow you to use a shell. If not you should be able to say on the syslinux prompt "imagename" root=/dev/"rootpartision" Then just put your own kernel together after you have speech. FC On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jason Custer wrote: > Hi > Well, there may be an easyer way, but I don't know it so here goes. > Sence you were able to get the speakup disk running, you probibly have dos > or windows with a talking screen reader. In this case, here is what to do. > Note that steps for doing this in redhat only are after this, but if it is > possible to do these steps with speech it will make life easeyer for you. > dos steps. > 1. copy the file loadlin.exe from the redhat disk. On my 6.1 disk it is in > /dosutils. > 2. copy the file vmlinuz from your speakup boot disk. > 3. type loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdxx rw > 4. now that you have speech, look at the linux steps below. > > > linux steps > 1. mount your flopy drive. The redhat disks for my 6.1 use vfat when making > the boot disk. So, do mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt > 2. cp /mnt/vmlinuz /boot > 3. type lilo > 4. reboot your now speaking linux. > \ > > Note that this kernel doesn't support several things such as some fat > systems networking, and several other things. As a result, you will probibly > want to make another kernel. > > Good luck! > > Hope this helps. If you need more details, let me know. > Jason > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Thomas Ward <tward at bright.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:07 PM > Subject: Installation of Kernal. > > > > Hello, list. I am sure this question is one that should be pretty simple, > > but at the moment I can not think of what to do. > > Do to a recent hard drive failior a couple of weeks ago I do not have any > of > > my custom kernals, and I just installed Red hat 7 onto a machine, and > gotit > > operational. > > However, during the install Red Hat did not ask if I wanted to install a > > kernal from the boot disk. Please, understand the talking boot disk has > the > > only talking kernal I have at the moment. > > How doI install the Red Hat 7.0 2.2.16 Kernal from my setup disk to my red > > hat 7.0 installed machine. > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
