lol, I have installed it with speech, but, someone said there were 14 cds. maybe if I do the network install, I can skip burning all of them... off to do that... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:41 PM Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? > The linux utilities are called "fromdos" and "todos" but they are in a > package called sysutils which you have to get with apt-get also. > > You know what I would do if I were you? I would start over again with a > fresh install of Debian making sure I could get speech right out of the > Debian box from the get-go. > > What CD did you use? Is it the speakup modified net-install disk > everyone else uses? What hardware synth do you have to put on your > Debian box? > > You can install Debian using speech and without sighted assistance, by > starting like this once your installation disk reaches the boot prompt: > > speakup speakup_synth=ltlk > > where ltlk stands for the litetalk, or some other abbreviation if that > is what you have. Then carefully follow the instructions, and be sure to > pick "network install" instead of "install from CD" when the question > arises. > > It's no big deal to start over. Look at what you've already learned > doing what you have done. Next time will be a snap. > > -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full) > But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
