Is there someone to write at Redhat about this sillyness? -- charlie. At 10:34 PM 3/26/03 -0500, you wrote: >As you've sadly discovered, Speakup is not included with Red Hat's current >beta called Phoebe, nor will it be included in the upcoming release of Red >Hat 9.0. We are >hoping and expecting it to be restored to Red Hat in their next release, >but that doesn't help us now. > >The floppy diskette images from Red Hat 8.0 will not work for installing >9.0 or Phoebe. Bill Acker is working on a solution, but don't expect >anything for a few weeks. > >Meanwhile, if you have two machines available, you might be able to >install using telnet as follows: > >1.) Boot the system on which you want to install using a non-speaking >boot floppy. You will press enter twice, I think--I will confirm this in a >forthcoming HOWTO. > > Use the following command at the Boot> prompt: > > text telnet > >2.) Use your second machine's ping command as follows to discover the >address dhcp gave to your target machine. > ping -b x.y.z.255 > >NOTE: You need to know what domain is providing dhcp in ytour network. For >example, on my system it's 192.168.10.* > >3.) telnet to that address and install as usual. > >Of course, this won't take care of everyone. Please be patient. > >Bue Vester-Andersen writes: > > From: Bue Vester-Andersen <listadr1 at dkblind.dk> > > > > Hi, > > > > It seems like speakup is not going to be included with Phoebe. At least it > > is not in the current beta. I downloaded phoebe in order to try > gnopernicus, > > but I need speakup to operate in text mode. Can I just use the boot disk > > from redhat 8.0? Will there be a special speakup release of Phoebe or will > > speakup eventually be in the plain distribution. > > > > Best regards > > Bue Vester-Andersen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
