Yes, I am using win 98 s e and I am running it in dos mode, or, trying too. For some reason I get a kernel panic unable to mount root fs or something to that affect. Jes and Harley Email: jesman598 at triad.rr.com Msn instant messenger: subman70 at hotmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Jes and guide dog Harley <jesman598 at triad.rr.com>; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Zipslack problem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are you doing this from a dos box, or from ms-dos mode? You need to start zipslack from ms-dos mode, not from a dos box under windows. Greg On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:51:05AM -0400, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to test zipslack on a system I have running that is a pentium 3, 450 mhz, with a 20 gb hard drive and 128 mb of ram. I > unzipped the zipslack directory in the root level directory of my windows drive, and edited linux.bat to point to my partition. I > copied the appropriate speakup kernel bz image from the speakup.s file and renamed it to vmlinuz, however, when I type linux.bat > at a dos prompt the computer locks up and I get no speakup output. I did notice one of my start up messages saying the cpu was in > v86 mode and I thought you had to disable this for zipslack to work. Also, himem.sys and emm386.exe seem to be okay, unless I > missed something somewhere. > I'd appreciate any help, I am using a double talk lt synthesizer. Thanks a lot. > Jes > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:4080b6f5252269985648732! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAgLfM7s9z/XlyUyARAqGGAJ94FzhOWBrX1qoLp2lbwRwr2WT0XwCg1fH1 II5+Br1GCF2DLQVuA0iiuR0= =Ddiu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
