I've done it. Not with grml but with the modified knoppix CD on the speakup web site. That was probably a year and a half ago. I can't tell you exactly what to do because I took so many false turns that I couldn't reproduce my own steps. It took me probably 4 or 5 hours but I got it to work eventually. If you know what you're doing you could probably do it in considerably less time. I don't think it matters which live CD you use. I found the instructions I used by googling for 'knoppix debootstrap'. I'm sure if you google for 'grml debootstrap' you'll find lots of instructions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech? > Hiya, > The reason I couldn't use a hardware synth is precisely because I don't > have a serial port on any of my machines. It's downright annoying, but I > wish there were support for USB to serial adaptors, or something along > those > lines. Either that, or preferably USB synths directly. > Thanks much, > Zack. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:42 AM > Subject: Re: Debian install with Software Speech? > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com> >> 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. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
