Hi steve, What I wound up doing, is I copied a 2.4.18 kernel image onto a debian boot floppy and booted from it. I went through the steps and all, however, I had the module symbol problem too but I went through the steps never the less. once I got to a point where I could reboot etc, I started to install debian and then I went and built my kernel on my new debian system. that's the way I handled it and I've never looked back. hth On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 03:55:10AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > This isn't a really specific question, but I have been using Slackware > for several years now and still love it! I recently attempted a > switch to Debian for the same reasons Chuck considered - package > management. But I came right back to Slackware. The basic tools for > doing things like configurations and even package construction is all > by shell scripts and I even have figured out how to build my own > slackware compatible package for Exim now. > > I never did get Debian 3.0 to come up with speakup because the > available speakup bootdisks for debian are out of date and the drivers > do not match, thus you can only get so far when installing debian 3.0 > with speakup from scratch. I guess existing debian machines upgrade > ok but I could never succeed from a previous slackware or empty box. > I kept getting unresolved external symbols while loading any modules. > > One thing I enjoy about slackware is being able to easily get "under > the hood" and look at all the pieces. I have found once in a while > that a slackware binary package for a given application doesn't quite > work to my wishes so I ended up uninstalling the package and rolling > in the original tarball instead. I had to do that with php and emacs > for sure. With php, the package did not include postgresql support > and I wanted that; and with emacs, something got funky when I tried > using cperl-mode so I reinstalled those applications from scratch with > my own configurations. I will usually start with the provided > packages and if they work well, then so be it; but if I have trouble, > it is easy enough to remove the package and do otherwise. > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:03:43PM -0500, Kody Dossey wrote: > > Hello list! :) > > > > I was curious if anyone is using Slackware Linux + Speakup? If so, would > > you like to share your thoughts/experiences with me about any > > problems/recommendations/loving rants? > > > > Regards, > > Kody > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Shaun Oliver It's multiple choice time... What is FORTRAN? a: Between thre and fiv tran. b: What two computers engage in before they interface. c: Ridiculous.
