Hi again, and thanks for all your help. Would it be possible to mount a USB device? How? Thanks, Liz On 3/8/2011 11:45 AM, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Liz Hare<doggene at earthlink.net> writes: > >> Do you have any ideas of how I can do this? I'm installing from CD on >> a system that doesn't have any OS already installed. > > Hi Liz, > Maybe. > > If you have a floppy drive and a spare floppy, > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > amixer> /mnt/out.txt > Yes, those old floppy drives are still good for something! You can hear > the motor and know that the data is being saved. > I've done the same thing with USB storage devices. > > How about your local area network? If you can somehow cajole the > machine into connecting to the Internet, then you can upload the data to > me using the nc utility. I'm fairly certain it is available on the .iso > you are using. I'll tell you where to upload off-list. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
