I wasn't trying to discourage anyone, I was just stating something that I've found was true for me, and it may or may not be true for others as well. Greg On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:33:18PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
