The images at octothorp.org and those in the redhat directory on linux-speakup.org are the same. They are the Speakup Modified Redhat distribution. You're better off to get them from the linux-speakup.org servers, because the network connection is better there. Of course, as you suggest, you can also simply compile speakup into a new kernel for yourself. You must have the sources installed, and you must patch them with the speakup modifications before compiling. This is all explained in a file called INSTALLATION in the speakup directory at www.linux-speakup.org. CAUTION: You may wish to do something to keep your existing kernel available, as was suggested earlier. That way, you have an out should things not go right. There are several ways to do that. As for not hosing your partitions upgrading to a new installation, there's actually no need to lose anything in an upgrade--if you've set things up right. I do it all the time--but it works for me because my /home is a separate partition. I simply copy /usr/local to a temporary directory on /home, and do the same for my mailbox and /etc tree. It takes very little time to put things back after the upgrade. Actually, I didn't say that right. There is an option to upgrade where your existing installation is simply updated. This is a menu selection in the installation program. What I was describing is a fully new installation of linux, where / and /usr (along with /var and /boot) are reformatted. On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Joe Clever wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I am a low vision user of linux and would like to add speakup to my laptop. > I have been futzing around with linux for about a year, but am still a > newbie. I already have stock Redhat 7.2 installed, along with WinME and > WinXP. If it's not too difficult, I would like to install speakup without > doing a full install of the modified Redhat/Speakup ISO's. I am basically > afraid of hosing my current partitioning. Is there more to it than just > replacing the kernel? I looked through the mailing list archives for clues > and saw mention of ftp://ftp.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.2/b1/RedHat/RPMS/. > Are these the modified or stock RPM's? > > Can someone give me some direction and/or point me to any specific doc's for > doing this? > > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
