However, if he plans to install to the fat 32 msdos file system he will need
the msdos diskette.
----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Creasy <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
> I found slackware 8.0 and the talking installation disk images by going to
> www.slackware.com/getslack and choosing one of the FTP mirrors. I think it
> was sunsite.
>
> there was a text file in the slackware 8.0 directory that described how to
> download and install slackware 8.0 with speakup. Basically I downloaded
> the slackware 8.0 ISO, the slackware.i boot image, and the color.gz root
> diske image.
>
> One thing I overlooked the first time I tried it was that you have to
> enter a command to get speakup to find your synthesizer awhen you boot
> with the diskette. When the diskette stops I had to enter "ramdisk
> speakup_synth=dtlk". this enabled it to talk through my doubletalk card.
> The rest of the installation was pretty much the normal series of steps.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Keith
>
>
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Reinhard Stebner wrote:
>
> > > Slackware 8 does come with talking boot disks and kernel.
> >
> > The only thing I found on the speakup web site was slackware 7.1 with
> > speaking boot disks. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help it means a lot to me. Here are some
more
> > newbee questions. Could someone please explain how the man page works?
(by
> > taking a man page and saying what all of the [] {} and <> mean in
context?
> >
> > How dows one read one screen at a time instead of one line at a time?
> >
> > Is there a way to copy that page and save it and then braille out than
man
> > page?
> >
> > Is there any way to have a braille device working with speakup?
> >
> > Where can I find more docs on the proper feeding and care of my new os?
> >
> > What about speakup (see last quesion).
> >
> > How hard is it to find documentation on programming un unix/linux?
> > Is it quite differant from programming under dos?
> >
> > Final quesion, what are some do and don'ts when comming to:
> >
> > 1) installing and setting up the os
> > 2) running the os
> > 3) upgrading
> > 4) speakups limitations when comming to the operating this os?
> >
> > Thank you once again for your willingness to help me out.
> >
> >
> >
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