----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:52 AM Subject: Debian install with Software Speech? > Hiya, > I don't have access to a hardware speech synthesizer, and so was > wondering what the options are for me to get a Debian install. I know > that Gentoo can run SSHD, and let me do the install manually with another > machine, but Deebian doesn't seem to do this. > Does anybody have any advice? I've done a couple of installs via the old serial tty approach. There are still a lot of howtos out on the web for this but briefly, what you need to do is attach a null modem cable to the serial port on the target machine, connect the other end to a machine that already has speech and fire up a terminal emulator program on that machine. At the boot prompt, type 'linux console=ttyS0,9600n8'. There are lots of variations on what you'd type at the boot prompt so consult the howtows.
