Thanks! ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: Question about slackware 8.1 rootdisk > You can't write it to a floppy. You either have to download install.1 > through install.5 and write them to 5 floppies, download the initrd.img > >from the isolinux directory and somehow boot it, or download install.zip > and unpack that on the root of a DOS partition. If you can boot CDROMS, > you are in luck because you can now type something like "bare.i > speakup_synth=bns" and get speech from the CDROM directly. I have the > official Slackware CD set and it includes a "Live" CD which lets you boot > and run off a CD for demo or rescue purposes. It also has speech support. > It is a real shame that the root disks got inflated like they did, but it > seems that code bloat is now beginning to rear its ugly head even in > Linux. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
