Just to clarify. I wasn't saying that people shouldn't use howtos, what bugged me was that you said that it was a pain to set up, possibly discouraging others from attempting to try something that is pretty painless for a lot of us. Bill On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Ok, but again, not everyone runs redhat. > I for example run slackware, which doesn't do such hardware detection leaving me to read the cd writing howto. > Yes, I know I could've picked redhat, but there was slackware's zipslack modified into zipspeak, and there was my drive entirely taken up by a fat32 partition, and there was me wanting to have a easy shot at linux (grin). So, that's how that story goes. > Greg > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:38:11PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > > Actually, one of each. The first system has SCSI, so, as you say, it was > > a piece of cake. The laptop has an ATAPI CD burner. When i got to the > > kernel parameters screen in the installation, I found that RH7.1 had > > detected the burner and placed "hdc=ide-scsi" on the line that would be > > fed to lilo. I just moved the cursor to the right of the statement and > > added the all important "speakup_synth=audptr". > > > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > Then you must have a SCSI drive, but not everyone does. You were lucky there. > > > Greg > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >