Greg, It worked just great, once I read the info material. Amazing how reading the funny manual seems to make software work so much better. So now I have an archlinux installation started on the laptop with software speech, very very slick indeed. My biggest problem was finding a suitable floppy to use. It turns I have only two in the house. One is defective, and the other is permanently write protected. So dymo tape came to the rescue, unprotecting the protected floppy, and the rest was all downhill. Many thanks for that suggestion. It's a keeper. Chuck On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:02:16PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck and all, > > no, sbm doesn't need to be installed on the laptop's hd. You'd install > it on your debian system, and use it to generate bootable media. The > documentation that comes with sbm will explain this in more > detail. I'd suggest installing it, and you can always purge it if you > find for some reason it won't do what you need it to do. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Greg, > > > > The sbm package is available in Debian, but I gather it needs to be installed on > > the laptop's HD to use it. I must be missing something here. I'm not > > understanding how it can help me, since to put it on the laptop's HD, > > I'd need to have Linux running on it already, in which case I wouldn't > > need it. > > > > But thanks for the info about the machine. > > > > Chuck > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknCstgACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyArrwCgnlMnGhBvGMRqsGFOjs/HBmi/ > ZTwAoMUwfqOh0pkvCjaau1p81T/JXcXo > =8OmP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (39% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net See also: www.wedit2.ml1.net -------- Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it.
