-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 just curious, why are you using debian 2.2? It's extremely old and outdated. you'd be better off with either woody (3.0) or sarge (testing). with the latter being the best choice in my opinion. On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:44:55AM -0600, Jeff Jacobson wrote: > 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 - -- If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA0K2U9XVrM3ri110RAgJoAJ0f9uQQCqoBetVgfrXV1O8bnW4zdgCfcsrW 8vhuhis9h/7Sg8s1sD/4uXc= =zbn6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
