From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 133012F185 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:52:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id eAALq2D11632 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:52:02 -0500 Received: from ns.shellworld.net (IDENT:root@ns.shellworld.net [64.29.16.176]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id eAALq2D11628 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:52:02 -0500 Received: from dashiell (24-240-0-43.hsacorp.net [24.240.0.43]) by ns.shellworld.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA28662 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:51:14 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c04b60$0bc86540$2b00f018@hsanet.net> From: "Jude DaShiell" To: References: <200011102025.MAA20354@sugarbeet.ultimanet.com> Subject: Re: FTP from Slackware.com Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:47:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion Okay now install it. Put it in your root directory and unzip it. If you use pkunzip, pkunzip -do zipspeak.zip will do that properly for you. Next in the c:\linux subdirectory you'll find a readme.txt file. Good idea to read the file, it's not that long. Then you'll need to download a couple more files appropriate for your speech synthesizer. You can't run this on a sound card, so if that's all you have delete the file unless that will change soon. I have a litetalk synthesizer and needed to download ltlk and ltlk.img from matt campbell's site. I copied ltlk to vmlinuz.spk and put it in my linux directory and then ran loadlin. loadlin is the dos program that will run zipspeak. Before you try this, put your synthesizer in standby or sleep mode so it's still on and can be started up by other software. what I typed was loadlin \linux\vmlinuz.spk root=/dev/hda5 rw . If you have an ide hard drive and you used c: for this system, it should start to come up and work. Now here's a life line for you. If you don't get to the login prompt and even if you do, after you have shutdown and reboted back into dos, have a look at c:\linux\var\adm\syslog. That's a very important file. If any major errors happened in your boot process linux writes them in that file. If there's lots of stuff in that file, send that file as part of a message to a list and ask for help. People will be able to see what happened on your machine and give you intelligent help lots quicker. If you want to sign up to blinux-newbie, send email to listserv@braille.uwo.ca blank subject line and a line in the body of the message reading subscribe blinux-newbie where you fill in the variables with the correct information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Wynn" To: Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 3:21 PM Subject: Re: FTP from Slackware.com > Got it! 36 megabytes??? I surely hope that it is not a 20 meg app. > with 30 megs of docs to read! It took 3 hours to download. I suspect > that that is the easy part. > Thanks for the help. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >