How would I make it work so that I could take the floppy drive out and put the CD drive in and keep the install going? I can swap in windows with my laptop just fine if I run the program it came with, it rescans the options bay for devices, so I could do it in windows, but I've yet to find an installer that will install linux while running windows. I can't use the serial port to do the install because that's where I hook my dectalk express to on my laptop. I'm not yet familiar with nfs servers, and don't have access to one, so I can't install that way either, besides I don't currently have network cards in my computers. I wonder if there's an easy way to get linux on my laptop. They made that thing so odd, the battery will fit in the options slot, but the drives won't fit in the other slot that's usually for the battery, yt they both feel the same to me. I tried it one time when I had the power cord plugged in, I removed the battery, tried to stick the floppy drive in it's place so I'd have both in the machine at once, but it wouldn't slide all the way in to make a connection, how disappointing. At 06:00 PM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Brent, >Well, the installation floppy has the speech which allows you to install >the contents of the CD. As of now, you still have to compile your >"talking" kernel. Some day though, someone will come up with >distributions with speech already built in, I'm not that guy though >because I don't have a CD recorder for my computer. > >As for any Debian questions I have to defer to others because I have yet >to run that distribution. > > Jim WB0TFK > > >On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, brent harding wrote: > >> Is there a speaking CD available for installing debian? I have a laptop >> with one of those drive bays that you swap the drives, so I'd either have >> to install from all floppies or all CD. My laptop has a bigger hard drive >> so I can't really transfer my partition over and recompile for dectalk >> express. >> At 03:55 PM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote: >> >Hi Terry, >> >And I thought I'd been around UNIX for a long time, my first exposure was >> >with SUN/OS around 1992. By the way, Bill Acker is the ultimate authority >> >on which disk names are what, because he built the Redhat ones. Though >> >I've been programming in C since about the mid 80s, I know nothing about >> >kernel hacking or drivers. I sure want to learn though! >> > >> > PPP would be a very tough go for installing Linux. I'm not even sure I'd >> >want to try it from my cable modem--but the time required on a 56K >> >connection would be ridiculous. Go with the CD! >> > >> > Jim WB0TFK >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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 >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
