Assuming your cd-rom drive is d: under windows, you get the speakup boot disk for ide drives from: d:\bootdsks.144\speakup.i The same procedure goes for the color.gz root disk which is in: d:\rootdsks\color.gz . Then you would write the images to the floppies as if you had gotten them off the speakup sight which is what it looks like you were planning to do. Greg On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 11:24:05PM -0600, Reinhard Stebner wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup