No, I didn't do that. It's not necessary on Red Hat, so I didn't even think of it. And, I don't know as I'd have a compatible system for it? My only working Debian box is an Alpha processor. The machine I'm building is an older Pentium. By the way, it isn't detecting my PCI ethernet card. That's too bad, because I don't recall it's type. It's something I picked up at a show for $5. One step at a time, I guess. Gregory Nowak writes: > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > After editingsyslinux.cfg,did you run/usr/local/bin/syslinuxon your system, with the name of your floppy image or/dev/fd0as the argument to the syslinux binary? > > Greg > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net > >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:36:21 -0400 > >Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How? > > >Thanks, Luke. > > >It's chattering now, so I guess I'm on my way installing. > > >Where was I stuck? I tried to hand edit syslinux.cfg to add > >xpeakup_synth=XXX, noting that "linux" was the default kernel. I > >doublechecked and didn't find errors. > > >So, I re-imaged the resc1440.bin floppy and entered 'boot > >speakup_synth=dtlk' by hand. > > >Search me. I should think the other would also have worked, but that's > >academic to me at this point. > > >PS: I did look at the docs before posting. There's nothing at all in the > >woody directory--except the warning to not select any keymap whatsoever. > >And, of course the Debian docs don't refer to a Speakup option--not that > >the process is all that different from other distros. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
