Zipspeak will not run on an ntfs partition, it will only run on fat/fat32. The only stock distribution which has a speakup enabled kernel out of the box is slackware. There are however speakup enabled distributions of debian and redhat available from linux-speakup.org. Greg On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:25:20AM +1200, blinky at earthlight.co.nz wrote: > so I take it there is no way to run zip speak from an nt based machine? > > I'll try the 98 se boot floppy that I have for my old system, but guess if > that don't work then I'll have to get either slackware or another > distribution. > > what is the easiest linux for a beginner to use. or is anyone better / > more configurable than another for someoen using speakup? > > also do all the distributions have speakup compliled into the kernal or is > that something that the user has to do them selves? > > thanks > > blinky
