Today I installed speakup w/o a hardware synth and w/o a second machine (unless you count a network connection to a debian archive as having a second machine). Here is what I did: 1. Booted via Oralux CD 2. installed base system via debootstrap 3. installed speakup modified kernel, dectalk software, speech-dispatcher 4. modified grub's menu.lst 5. rebooted It works! Sorry I can't provide more details but I did not take adequate notes because it didn't exactly go as smoothly as the steps above might imply. I had a lot of false starts and did a lot of backtracking. But eventually I did get it to work. I hope to start over now that I know how to do it and will write a howto as I go. Step 2 is documented here: http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html Obviously, step 3 is the real mystery. But basically what i did was scp a bunch of .deb packages to the PC and run dpkg. I don't think that counts as using a second machine. It's like a network install. Instead of scp, I think I should have been able to do apt-get to install the kernel and speech-dispatcher but I got a ton of errors and I didn't know what they meant. One stupid thing I did was copy kernel and dectalk software to a CD but I couldn't use it because the oralux CD was in the drive. I didn't even think of that until I was just about to eject the CD.
