There is a dos program included with all Linux distros called rawrite.
To make a diskette for the sspeakup boot diskette do the following.
For this example I am going to assume your cdrom is on d:\ in dos.
d:\
cd\bootdsks.144
rawrite speakup.i a:\
Then, the boot diskette is written on your floppy.
Now enter the next commands.
cd\rootdsks
rawrite color.gz a:\
That will write the color.gz root diskette.
----- Original Message -----
From: Reinhard Stebner <raydar@xxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
> and How do I get the disk from the cd when the system is not booted
(Linux)?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: speakup 1.0 and slackware 8.0
>
>
> > If you get the iso, you don't need the 2 floppy images as they are on
the
> cd itself.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:44:16PM -0500, Keith Creasy wrote:
> > > 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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