-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:13:46 AM -0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > Hello, > I need some help getting Debian sarge installed. I believed that debian now I believe currently the best way to install is using Shane's modified netinst iso at http://people.debian.org/~shane/netinst-speakup but I haven't used it for an install so I can't be sure. > has speakup included in the main distro, but when I tried starting it with > the speakup_synth parameter, it never spoke. So I tried the boot floppies Yes speakup is included in Debian, but it is still not easily available on the installation media. You are still almost certainly going to want to roll your own kernel with the latest and greatest speakup in it one day. [snip] > I don't intend to use fedora, there seems to be too many problems when > it is updated because speakup is not in the standard distribution. I hope your wearing fire retardent clothing with a statement like that *grin* HTH - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJZZ85JK61UXLur0RA1kKAJ960lFgVlFikxdERs/VvhgKbXffggCfXMu6 FgihLW+pnKoa3mIvILx7tA4= =6AUG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----