suggest a lot of the documentation on a lot of subjects like this be rewritten from scratch since a lot of it is out of date. Cody I ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:51 PM Subject: re: slackware can't install > Because the speakup.i kernel was removed. It used to be there at one > time. I think a determination was made that the speakup.s kernel would > work for ide disks too and that freed up some space on the CD for other > software. One note that should maybe be added to the speakup documentation > for slackware is about swap partitions needing to be twice the ram size > that's on a computer. With slackware, it's possible to create a swap > partition first then create the remaining partitions after that. A note > about shadowconfig on might help some, and a note about slapt-get could go > a little way towards helping new users keep up with new updates. None of > this stuff is mentioned by Patrick in the welcome message. The hosts.deny > and hosts.allow files would be another good topic to cover even if all > that's done is to suggest new installers read their man pages. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
