Hi, my comments are below intermixed with your questions. ----- Original Message ----- From: Reinhard Stebner <raydar@xxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:48 PM Subject: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0 > Does anyone know if there are any boot disks and kernels built with speakup > 1.0 in them? At the moment as far as I know none of the boot disks have 1.0 in them, but Slackware 8 does come with talking boot disks and kernel. > > Does anyone know how hard it would be to be to install slakware 7.1 with > speakup then upgrade to speakup 1.0 and slakware 8.0? > You really should just grab Slackware 8.0 and install from that. Then, at some pont upgrade your kernel and Speakup version. > I am a very new user and am wanting to install slackware on a partition on > my win 98 machine. Thanks for any help. You've got a couple of options here. They have a msdos root disk which allows you to install Slackware 8 to a fat 32 partition. Then, you can configure loadlin to restart into Linux. The other option is to use something like Partition magic 7 to free up space, and then install Slackware 8 and Lilo to multiboot. > > Also, could someone give me the packages that are not required for a blind > sure (during install of the slackware package)? This is completely up to the Linux user, and what you will need. You will most llikely want a series, ap series, d series, e series, n series, and perhaps y as well although y is just text games. Most of the rest is for x-windows which isn't speech friendly yet, but you may want some of that if you plan to write apps for x. > > What iso do I want to down load? Get the install.iso in the Slackware 8.0 directory. > > Finally, can I buy slackware in the store? Thanks for ay help. Yep. Lots of places cary Slackware 8. However, online stores such as Amazon are the most likely place to find it. > Just look around and you will probably find it at one of those online stores. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the > letters get in the wrong places." > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
