If you're going to be starting over from scratch anyway, why not upgrade to Debian 3? Just a thought. Jayson. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Jacobson" <jeffjac2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup" <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: starting over > Hi, > > I had no luck with the 2.6.6 kernel. I was able to build it with the speakup > cvs installed, however it would not boot on my machine. I think there were > just too many options in the "make config" that I was probably not selecting > correctly. My source trees were fairly messed up by the time I finished > trying to install 2.4.17, 2.4.25 and 2.6.6, and the Package Manager APT was > so hosed it wouldn't run or repair. > > So I tried installing from the "Speakup Enabled Boot Floppies" and though > they load, there were no drivers for my network card and it would not read > my Debian iso image CD. > > Here is my current plan of attack, and any suggestions would be appreciated: > > 1) I'm performing a fresh install over the Internet of Debian 2.2.20. I'm > building a minimal systems this time and will add X Windows and such later. > > 2) Patch the kernel up to version 2.4.17 and then 2.4.25. When the kernel is > building and running without problems, move on to step 3. > > 3) Install the speakup cvs. If and when I can get this far, I'll start > installing Apache, Samba, X Windows, etc. > > Does this sound like a reasonable approach? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
