Problems making a new initrd to make a new kernel of speakup talk

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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
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > 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
> 
> 
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