Joseph, Please see my response below marked by '**'. Thanks for your response. Regards Mo. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Norton [mailto:jnorton@xxxxxxx] Sent: 04 May 2001 09:30 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca; speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: SLACKWARE BOOT DISKS Hi Mo: Never used winrawrite, so I can't comment on that. ** It is really good and simple to use. (attached below). ** Have you tried using rawrite.exe (the one that runs in a DOS box)? ** I've tried it, but gave up because I kept getting the error "detected bad sector: 01". Since then, I've learnt that this is normal? ** I believe that might work, just a little slower. Of course, I don't know your setup. What version of Windows are you using now and do you have a DOS screen-reader? If you're using Windows 98 Second Edition or earlier, you should be able to shutdown and restart in DOS mode and be able to do the rawrite from a straight DOS prompt. ** I'm using WME and tried it at the dos prompt with JFW enabled. Disabling JFW doesn't make any difference. Additionally, the reason I believe there may be something wrong with the color.gz archive downloaded from the speakup website is because I can't open it using winrar. The color.gz on the slackware distribution opens with no problem. ** Again, I haven't used winrawrite, but, I'll look for it and try it, just in case. ** Enjoy ** there is a way you could use a speakup-enabled kernel to boot the color.gz image directly from hard-drive. I will look into that, but, it won't be till this evening at the earliest. ** Thanks for the offer, but If the archive that I've downloaded is corrupt, then this will not make any difference. ** I need to get my Linux box set up again, anyway. I am getting tired of using Eudora (even though it's not a bad client, I prefer Pine under Linux). I really need 2 systems or a bigger hard-drive. Let us know a little more about your setup and we'll try to help all we can. I'm glad to hear you got the synth talking--that's usually (although not always) the hardest part. ** Thanks for your help. Cheers. Mo. At 08:18 AM 5/4/2001 +0100, mo.valli at bt.com wrote: > > I have downloaded dectlk.dsk and color.gz from > > http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/slackware/slackware-7.1/, from the > > bootdsks/ and rootdsks/ directories respectively. > > > > I managed to successfully transfer the dectlk.dsk file onto a 1.44 floppy > > using winrawrite, but get an error when attempting the same with the > > color.gz file. > > I have tried using the created dectlk.dsk floppy and my sp sinth talks > > fine, but as one would expect, the system produces errors when the root > > disk is inserted. > > Can I use the color.gz file from the slackware distribution instead, or > > will this not work with the sinth? Can I download this file from somewhere > > else? _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rawwritewin.exe Type: application/octet-stream Size: 378368 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20010504/054ad0e6/attachment.exe>
