-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mind describing the procedure you took, (I.E. what vmware programs to download, since there is a player and server), and everything that you did? Is running gnu/linux in vmware with windows as the host really a viable alternative to resizing existing partitions, and dealing with installing on machines with no serial ports? Thanks. Greg On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:23:10PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Howdy, > I'm glad to be able to report that I was able to get a fully speakup-enabled installation of Gentoo Linux onto a VmWare image. This helps solve some rather annoying problems with my particular computer, specifically the cdrom drive being a little flaky. > I've found that Espeak works very well in the virtual machine, and that in general unless I'm doing something intensive--like compilation--the performance is great. > I'm actually rather proud of myself in that I was able to do this installation without sighted help, something which I had previously needed. > I'll stop rambling now. > Thanks for listening, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGItKi7s9z/XlyUyARAm/ZAJ9arNfJsVggG4MdOg3KsvEreMd8UwCbBapK MhPvIaialyxe2Ahzbfayajo= =Qwnx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----