My only suggestion is to replace the 'bare.i with speakup.i' when talking about rawrite. That is if this readme is going to speak only about speakup. On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > OK, for starters this is my proposal to be included in the README.TXT file > in the bootdsks.144 directory of slackware. The README.TXT file briefly > explains the kernels found in this directory. This is what I propose is > said about speakup.i and speakup.s. > > These are 1.44 MB bootdisk images for Slackware Linux 7.2.0. > > These disks use Linux kernel version 2.2.19. > > You'll need one of these to get Linux started on your system so that you can > install it. Because of the possibility of collisions between the various Linux > drivers, several bootkernel disks have been provided. You should use the one > with the least drivers possible to maximize your chances of success. > > You will be using the bootdisk to load and start a rootdisk. See the /rootdsks > directory for these. > > A bootdisk is created by writing the image to a formatted floppy disk > with RAWRITE.EXE under DOS. For example, to use RAWRITE.EXE to create the > bare.i bootdisk you'd put a formatted disk in your floppy drive and issue > the following command: > > C:\> RAWRITE BARE.I A: > > ******************************************************************************* > * Tip: If you have no idea which bootdisk to use, start with "bare.i". This * > * is the correct disk to use for most systems with IDE peripherals. * > ******************************************************************************* > > Note: If you need to support an unusual hardware combination during the > installation (for example, you want to do an NFS installation using > a SCSI card and network card that aren't both in the scsinet.s image), > then you may need to use a generic bootdisk like "bare.i" and load the > additional drivers as kernel modules before running "setup". See the > README files in the ../modules directory for details on how to do this. > > All bootdisks except the no_smp bootdisks now support SMP (multiple CPUs) > by default. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here's a description of the disks: > > These are the bootdisks for IDE based systems. All IDE bootdisks support > IDE hard drives and CD-ROM drives, plus additional support listed below. > > speakup.i This is the bare.i kernel compiled with the > speakup screen reader patch from Kirk Reiser. To use > speakup you must have a supported synthesizer and > give the lilo prompt a speakup parameter such as: > ramdisk speakup_synth=nnn where nnn is one of the > supported synthesizers; acntsa, acntpc, apolo, audptr, > bns, dectlk, decext, dtlk, ltlk, spkout or txprt. > > speakup.s This is the scsi.i kernel compiled with the > speakup screen reader patch from Kirk Reiser. To use > speakup you must have a supported synthesizer and > give the lilo prompt a speakup parameter such as: > ramdisk speakup_synth=nnn where nnn is one of the > supported synthesizers; acntsa, acntpc, apolo, audptr, > bns, dectlk, decext, dtlk, ltlk, spkout or txprt. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
