Hi. Your HOWTO won't help him because he's using Debian. Not sure why he thinks a HOWTO for installing Fedora can be used to install Debian. Kenny should be followed On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:12:53PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > Suggest you check things more carefully. > > 1.) The instructions in the Fedora HOWTO that name /mnt/sysimage > explicitly state that you do this at the end of an installation of the > Speakup Modified Fedora Core. This is not the same as installing a new > kernel in an existing installation of Fedora. > > 2.) If you want specific help, please be more specific about what > you did and the precise error message. Your comment that "-v -f" doesn't > exist is just plain wrong. These options most certainly do exist for the > mkinitrd command. Many of us usetje, regularly. > > 3.) Please check your typing. It's Fedora with an 'e,' for example. > Is it possible sloppy typing is the source of your problems with these > commands as well? > > Sean M McMahon writes: > > This sort goes with my thread from last week, changing synths under > > speakup. I installed the new kernel-image-2.4.26-speakup but when I went > > to make a new a new initrd using mkinitrd and the instructions provided > > in the fadora howto, mkinitrd complained there was no -v or -f option. The > > fadora also tells you to go to a directory called /mnt/sysimage which > > doesn't exist on my system. If anyone knows the debian way to do any of > > this please help. Sean > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Chair > Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup