HI. tried this one and the default installation kernel wouldn't talk for me. perhaps the cd I made was broken but don't think so. I think there might be a screen before the boot prompt though which I wouldn't know about. will play a little more on the week end and see if I can get it working. Brian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Speakup added to another distro > > Heh yeah, adding speakup to more distros is a good thing. The bad part > > about this one though is to install you must burn on to cd can't really > > modify a floppy or anything like that to get it going. > > Actually, you should be able to copy the boot file to a floppy. The method > a CD uses to boot is there must be an image file of a floppy disk. This is > what is actually booted from. Copy the image to a floppy and you can boot > from floppy (though you probably still need the CD available). > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Nowlan's Theory: > He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from > the next freeway exit. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >