I've just been using the install DVD, works fine and contains everything that I would otherwise have to burn 4 cds to get. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:33:27AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The issues with slackware 12.0 not prompting for replacement of disk1 and > exploding when the /kernels/speakup.s directory cannot be found have been > made far worse in slackware 12.1. Earlier I wrote about a workaround for > slackware 12.0 in which all packages that were checked starting with > [f,k,t,x,y] needed to be unchecked and installed later no longer works in > slackware 12.1. You do get down to where the kernel copy is supposed to > happen but slackware 12.1 now errors out at that point and does not copy > any kernel automagically. If an upgrade path is possible and anyone doing > this will need to take the exclude off of kernel* because slackware has > recompiled all kernels for slackware 12.1 including speakup.s and put all > of the security fixes into them that were current at the date of this > kernel's release. The last time such a recompile was done was with > Slackware 7.0 at least by the people over at slackware.com. Understand > this bad experience has happened multiple times over here and on every > occassion I had a talking install since I did include the proper speakup > parameters to make it happen for this synthesizer. What happens after the > kernel fails to install is that it's also impossible to install lilo since > lilo needs as a prerequisite to have that kernel on that hard drive living > happily. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. -- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a
