red hat 8.0 and boot file

red hat 8.0 and boot file

[Danny Crone]

Hello everyone.  I sent a message a couple weeks ago, and it must have 
gotten misplaced.  So I am posting this question again.
I have red hat 7.2 with speak up on my system.  I want to completely 
replace this with red hat 8.0, and I have already put this on to 
cd's.  Currently the system has one partition.  But I want to have a system 
partition and a data partition so that the next time I upgrade it will be 
easier.  Before everything is erased, I want to save the file that makes 
the synthesizer speak right from the beginning.  How can I do that?

Re: red hat 8.0 and boot file

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Danny,

Well, the Speakup screen reader is built right into the kernel.  So, the
vmlinuz file would be the file containing Speakup.  There's then a boot
loader configuration file that directs the kernel, and this contains the
parameter that tells Speakup which synthesizer to use.  I believe RH 7.2
still runs Lilo, so you're looking for /etc/lilo.conf.

Now, keep in mind that RH 8 includes Speakup in its kernel.  Load the RH 8
boot floppy into your floppy drive, boot from it, then type the following
command to start the install with speech:
text speakup_synth=name (where name is the appropriate value from Speakup)

Check out http://www.linux-speakup.org for further details.




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----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Crone" <dannyboy@pobox.com>
To: "speakup" <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:08 PM
Subject: red hat 8.0 and boot file


> Hello everyone.  I sent a message a couple weeks ago, and it must have
> gotten misplaced.  So I am posting this question again.
> I have red hat 7.2 with speak up on my system.  I want to completely
> replace this with red hat 8.0, and I have already put this on to
> cd's.  Currently the system has one partition.  But I want to have a
system
> partition and a data partition so that the next time I upgrade it will be
> easier.  Before everything is erased, I want to save the file that makes
> the synthesizer speak right from the beginning.  How can I do that?
>
>
>
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