The trouble is how to use utils on the root disk when you have to physically remove the floppy drive to get the CD in? At 06:06 PM 10/18/00 -0400, you wrote: >Buddy. You don't need the base tarball. It's on the cd. You can mount >the cd with all of the tools on the root disk. If you are conserned about >the keymap that's a pretty easy thing to fix. For some of us the 15m >download is a lot. > > >FC > > >On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote: > >> Also remember you can get a $0.99 (or maybe it's back to $1.89, I haven't >> checked) CD of any distribution at >> www.linuxmall.com >> >> It might be more if you get a multi-disk distro. Like maybe $2 or $3 or >> something. >> >> And Linuxmall has actually done some good by making their site easier to >> use if you're blind. At least, last time I was there it was. >> >> Bear in mind though that if you go the CD route, you'll still need to get >> the boot and root disks and the base.tgz file from the Speakup FTP site for >> Debian. I think I might play with making a Debian CD with the modified >> base2-2.tgz file myself. >> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV >> Voice mail: 877-791-5298 >> Email: davros at ycardz.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > >