I take your point. I guess RH allows me to get away without this, though, as it's my SOP to edit the syslinux.cfg by hand to add the speakup keyword before installing a new RH system. Heck, I've even been known to burn a CD ROM image with a hand-edited syslinux.cfg, and I've never done the step you cite. Glad to have the explanation of why it didn't work on this current install, though. I guess I learned something tonight. Now, it's B$ time for me. Thanks again. Gregory Nowak writes: > From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > > Well, that was your problem then. > > BTW, syslinux is distribution independent, and whenever you modify syslinux.cfg on a floppy image, you always need to run syslinux on that image for your modifications to syslinux.cfg to take effect. > > Hth. > > Greg > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net > >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:37:03 -0400 > >Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How? > > >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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
