Hello Randy,
What version of Slackware are you trying to install? Last time I checked, speakup.i stopped being included in the Slackware distributions after 8.1 or so.
On Friday, February 11, 2005, 4:40:41 PM, you stood on a roof and loudly proclaimed:
> hi Stephen,
> that command works with the speakup.i
> but on my system it does not work
> with the speakup.s
> for some reason.
> is there anyway to use just one floppy
> to boot up from the cdrom?
> when i use the command
> ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk
> with speakup.s the system boots but i get no speech at all.
> i can't figure out why it would work with speakup.i
> and not with speakup.s on my system.
> thanks in advance
> randy
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Stephen Clower wrote:
>> Hello Randy,
>>
>> Yes, that command will work if you're using the Speakup.s
>> kernel on a floppy. However, if you have access to a normal CD-ROM
>> based installation, here's a quicker and easier way to get the
>> process going. Put the first Slackware CD into your CD-rom drive
>> and boot up your computer. When the disk stops spinning, type:
>> speakup.s speakup_synth={synth_name}
>>
>> HTH
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Friday, February 11, 2005, 3:19:37 PM, you stood on a roof and loudly proclaimed:
>>
>>
>>> hi all,
>>> is the ramdisk command for speakup.s
>>> the same as it is for speakup.i?
>>> after the floppy stops i inter this
>>> "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk"
>>> with the speakup.i that works
>>> but not with the speakup.s
>>> thanks in advance.
>>> randy
>>
>>
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>>
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