Response

Response

[Michael]

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First of all, I'm not having a vary good evening.  I have tried to get both the Redhat 7.0 Transport boot image and the Slackware 7.1 image to work with no success.  Also the color.gz and txt.gz root images won't unzip.  
When I ask for advice, all I get are questions.  
I got my images from http://www.linux-speakup.org, under the index link, under the Redhat 7.0 link 
and under the Slackware 7.1 link.  
I only received two helpful hints today an I thank those two gentlemen who took the time to help.  
To those who questioned me, I guess they didn't require some help at one point in time. 
they must have been born Linux experts.  
Even two people I know personally, who are Linux users one blind and one not ,  doesn't seem to want to take the time to give me some assistance.  

Best regards to all: 
Michael 
    
  
 

      
  


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Re: Response

[Kirk Reiser]

Well Mike:  If you don't give enough background information how do you
expect to get the correct answers to your questions?  Folks are
usually very glad to try and help.  Giving you the wrong answers won't
help you or others that come along and read your posts and the
replies.  People could just suggest you install windows where you
don't need to know much but you get a system which doesn't work very
well either.

You should not be taking your images from www.linux-speakup.org for
redhat.  Bill Acker maintains a much more up to date ftp site for
redhat images at ftp://speakup.octothorp.org/pub/...  You should get
your images from there.  In fact, I am sure I saw someone suggest that
to you within the last day or two.  So if you want answers, you really
should listen to the ones you get.

  Kirk 
p.s. Write Bill at wacker@octothorp.org and he will give you his phone
number and you can call him.  I am sure he will be happy to talk you
through the installation on the phone.

-- 

Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: Response

[Frank Carmickle]

And you think that complaining about the help is going to get you more
help!  When your ready to give us enough info to help you we'll be glad to
help.  It's hard to give someone directions when you ask them where there
coming from and they tell you how they've had a bad day and that your not
helping by asking there location.  If your not going to tell me your
location I will not be able to give you directions to my house.  Hell you
could be in East Asia or Alaska for all I know.  How the hell do expect us
to know where the fuck you are.  So quit bitching.  And then you close
with best regards?  

How about you start by reading the documentation.  The speakup readme for
slackware is quite good.  I will not rewrite it now just so that you can
read it on the list.  They can be found in the slackware-8.0 directory on
the slackware ftp sight.  ftp.slackware.com  You may want to try using
current software.  redhat 7.0 is old and so is slackware 7.1

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Michael wrote:

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     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

RE: Response

[Holmes, Steve]

And up to now, I hadn't even chosen to respond because I ignored the subject
line; I don't personally do redhat so I tend to skip messages that aren't of
interest to me, in the interest of time.

Also, If more background is needed to formulate an answer, it is a natural
to respond by asking more questions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Carmickle [mailto:frankiec@braille.uwo.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:12 AM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Response


And you think that complaining about the help is going to get you more
help!  When your ready to give us enough info to help you we'll be glad to
help.  It's hard to give someone directions when you ask them where there
coming from and they tell you how they've had a bad day and that your not
helping by asking there location.  If your not going to tell me your
location I will not be able to give you directions to my house.  Hell you
could be in East Asia or Alaska for all I know.  How the hell do expect us
to know where the fuck you are.  So quit bitching.  And then you close
with best regards?  

How about you start by reading the documentation.  The speakup readme for
slackware is quite good.  I will not rewrite it now just so that you can
read it on the list.  They can be found in the slackware-8.0 directory on
the slackware ftp sight.  ftp.slackware.com  You may want to try using
current software.  redhat 7.0 is old and so is slackware 7.1

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Michael wrote:

-- 
     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com


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