My guess: a problem with the ramdisk which the installer uses as a working system. I wonder if there is a way to have it run as a livecd? On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I have an old Toshiba laptop Satelite 300 with a wappin' 32 megs of > memory with a 266 MHz processor. Slackware runs fine on it but I > thought I would try to install Debian Lenny on it but I can't get > speakup to come up at all. Is there a chance that Debian's kernels > just don't work on this little pup? I tried the usual procedure with > both a full CD for I386 and the netinst disk for I386 downloaded today > and I did the down arrow once followed by tab then > 'speakup.synth=spkout'. The disk cycled up at the appropriate times > but silence. I verified that this disk and procedure work on another > machine and it talked OK. I even tried an additional option of > 'fb=false' thinking maybe it were a framebuffer. Still no go. I > experimented once by specifying 'console=ttyS0,9600,n,8' and listened > to see if the Speakout would talk at all and sure enough, it did. It > appeared to me that the kernel actually came up but there was a lot of > stray characters (probably for terminal control or something) but it > proved to me that the kernel appears to boot and my serial connection > to the laptop is good. > > So after all this messing around, is Debian too big for my laptop? I > guess I could keep on with Slackware as that still works fine. I was > just thinking I would begin to switch all my boxen over to Debian. > > Any ideas? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkkc764ACgkQWSjv55S0LfG4xgCfdkjhd1P6uUSFIRjNsBpOqq7k > Lp8AoLRXm9w3wTCFWjnAp1PeqCYL8zuT > =q5jz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
