Cool. I count this as one machine. Looking forward to the HOWTO. John G. Heim writes: > 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. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
