Thanks very much! Al On 05/26/2013 09:56 PM, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Hi Al: Just let grml boot normally without typing anything at the boot > prompt. When it gets done it makes a little beedly-dop sound with the > beeper. At that point it is at a menu of choices. Just hit enter and > it'll drop to the shell prompt. At that point you can type modprobe > speakup_soft or whatever you want to use then espeakup if you want > software synth. > > Good luck. > > On Sun, 26 May 2013, Albert Sten-Clanton wrote: > >> I just looked for speakup-related info on the GRML wiki but didn't >> find it? >> Using "swspeak" in the search entry field got me no results, and using >> "speakup" did little better. (No, I didn't use the quote marks there.) >> Thanks to anybody who can tell me what I'm doing wrong. >> >> Al >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces at linux-speakup.org] On Behalf Of >> Jason >> White >> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:18 PM >> To: speakup at linux-speakup.org >> Subject: Re: Accessible image backup and restore program? >> >> Jayson Smith <ratguy at insightbb.com> wrote: >> >>> What do you recommend for a bootable, accessible backup and restore >>> solution? Does whatever you recommend use software speech? >> >> Grml is my favourite. There are details on the Grml wiki of how to >> start it >> with speech (or braille, but that isn't our topic here). However, changes >> were made in recent versions to the accessibility support, hence the >> information on the wiki may not be current. I haven't experimented with a >> recent GRML release. >> >> Grml provides essentially every recovery tool you are likely to need. >> >> My own solution is somewhat different: I bind mount my partitions in a >> directory under /tmp, then use rsync to copy everything over to an >> external >> drive. This is slightly easier than excluding /dev, /proc, /sys etc., and >> still gives you the directories in the underlying file system which >> serve as >> the mount points. >> >> I have only Linux partitions to back up as I don't run Windows on any >> of my >> machines. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >