Re: speakup disks needed

[Darrell Shandrow <nu7i@azboss.net>]

Hi Janina,

I understand about the possibilities of creating a firewall with RedHat or
nay other Linux, and of locking things down.  It just all depends on what
you are planning to do with your Linux box.  I tend to use them for
servers, so I don't want to lock it completely down...  :-)

OK; here's what I did.  I downloaded the boot.img file from the
redhat/7.2 directory of the linux-speakup.org FTP site.  I just downloaded
the boot.img, not the RedHat ISO files, since I had already burned a set
of RedHat 7.2 CDs.  Did Bill actually modify the contents of the RedHat
distro itself?  Do I need those ISO files in order for this to work
correctly?

OK, once I dwonloaded the boot.img file, I used the following dd command
to create a boot floppy:

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k

This seemed to work; I observed no errors.

On the target machine, I inserted the newly created boot disk and the
first RedHat 7.2 CD, and rebooted the machine.  The machine booted from
the floppy; I have no idea what was on the screen...  :-)  At this point,
I typed the following to install using the Accent PC speech ysnthesizer:

text speakup_synth=acntpc

After pressing enter, I heard some disk activity which eventually stopped,
but never any speech...  :-)

Do you have nay good ideas?

Thanks.

 On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Darrell:
>
> What happens with the modified RH boot disks and the Accent?
> Specifically, can you describe the process and what happens?
>
> Let me say that I have installed several systems for several people using
> a variety of speech synths both in the U.S. and in the U.K. in the past
> two weeks using precisely these boot disks without a hitch.
>
> As for the exposure to hacking, the Redhat installation includes the
> configuration of a firewall. If you pay attention in that part of the
> process you can, among other options, fully lock the machine down against
> any incoming traffic. If you're not careful, though, you can leave one
> interface fully open while locking down another. To that end, it is
> important to read and understand the Redhat installation help messages
> and/or the installation manual available for online reading or for
> download at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/.
>
> Bill's site is no longer the preferred place for downloading either the
> Redhat kernel RPMS or the full Redhat iso images which Bill modifies with
> speakup. This is a good thing because Bill's net connection was getting
> overloaded from all the interest in these files. They are now available on
> the speakup site, which has a much larger pipe to the net, via anonymous
> ftp at
> www.linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/7.2/. They are definitely
> there--I just checked. But use ftp and not http, as the revamped web pages
> are still not quite correct on the speakup site.
>
>  On Thu, 6 Dec
> 2001, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
>
> > Hi Jude,
> >
> > Yeah; DSL is even less secure than dial-up, especially with a static IP
> > address.  But, if your system is solid, and you keep all the doors closed
> > you want, you should be relatively safe.
> >
> > The RedHat boot disks are available on the linux-speakup.org FTP site, but
> > they don't work, at least the RH 7.2 boot image does not seem to work for
> > the Accent PC.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > At 07:36 PM 12/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I'm rather certain I lost the patched red hat 7.0 kernel file for speakup.
> > >Right now, I have red hat 7.0 somewhat verbal on my computer with
> > >doubletalk synthesier.  I just got in the mail red hat 7.2 boxed set so
> > >I'm also going to need an updated boot disk and the kernel patch file for
> > >doubletalk and red hat 7.2 so I can do the upgrade.  I've been under the
> > >radar for quite a while since my linux system that was on a dial up
> > >account got hacked.  linsniffer was put onto my computer since one of the
> > >server doors was open that oughtn't have been for single home users and
> > >the hacker got in that way.  That sniffer has a web page at
> > >http://www.attrition.org.  I don't know that dsl will be anymore secure,
> > >but I got me a modem and an account with verizon so am going to find out.
> > >The speakup mirror disk link for red hat 6.2 7.0 and 7.2 so far as I can
> > >tell is broken and generates an error 404 so I'm wondering if these files
> > >are available on the internet now.  Last I heard Bill Hacker's ftp site
> > >was shut down so ftp.octothorp.org isn't an option now.
> > >
> > >
> > >Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> > >
> > >
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