R'r'really fuckin pissed!

R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Chris Gilland]

i went to the ftp site that was given to me by Alex Snow to get Slackware 
9.1.  Well, why is it that I cannot burn the image if it's the last thing I 
do!  I've tried both nero and Roxio under Winshit of which neither 
work...  I swear so help me on the Bible! the minute! I get this thing 
burnt as should be, I am! wiping Windows completely!  i don't care if I 
know Linux well or not... That! with the CD burning issue knowing I just 
wasted a whole 10 dollar pack of CD's and now have none left, as put me 
over the Goddamn fcreak!  Sorry for the strong language, but this is no 
more no less, than rediculous!  Does anyone know an alternative way I can 
burn this since the iso disk 1 downloaded fine, which is all Alex said I 
really needed escentially?  It isn't a matter of it not downloading, i have 
all 625mb of it, it just will not burn!  I thought maybe the download had 
been corrupted, so thus, tried this morning to redownload it, only to my 
dismay, that it still didn't work...  I can't imagine that the image up 
there is corrupted whenever IE downloaded it entirely without crashing.  I 
will not! go back to Redhat or Fedora though as the netconfig utility for 
me anyways, seems very unspeech friendly, that is, compared to under 
Slackware, and B, The fact that I don't know how to update to the CVS 
version of Speakup...  i really could use some help though...  i want the 
littlest hastle of configuration possible...  I want it to automatically 
mount my windows drive on /dev/hda1 if possible, and automatically detect 
my sound card, SB Live Value EMU10K1, if possible.  Further more, I will 
not! tollerate this bug with Accent...  my Windows M E though is goin' bye 
bye.  Period...

Please! someone help me...


Chris.

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Erik Heil]

Hey there Chris.  I believe that your sound card should be automatically
detected by your 2.4.22 kernel, depending on what modules Slackware uses for
their CD's. Sorry, I'm not familiar with slackware, more of a Debian person.
However they state that they use the standard kernel from kernel.org. Next,
to update your speakup version, what you'll want to do is when you have
network access under Linux, grab the speakup 1.5 tarball, change to the
directory with your kernel sources, usually /usr/src/Linux/2.4.22 and run
the checkout script.  This directory may be different, because I seem to
recall that it may be Linux_2.4.22.  an "ls" will ctell you what you need.
Since you're a new user, I'd recommend doing a full install.  This will give
you a very complete GNU/Linux system.  Heck, it even comes with a screen
reader for Gnome! Not very functional yet, but at least you can use a few
applications.  This should get you started.  Worse comes to worse, let me
know and I'll just make you the CD's and mail them to you.
Good luck,
Erik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gilland" <chris@mailvision.ath.cx>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: R'r'really fuckin pissed!


> i went to the ftp site that was given to me by Alex Snow to get Slackware
> 9.1.  Well, why is it that I cannot burn the image if it's the last thing
I
> do!  I've tried both nero and Roxio under Winshit of which neither
> work...  I swear so help me on the Bible! the minute! I get this thing
> burnt as should be, I am! wiping Windows completely!  i don't care if I
> know Linux well or not... That! with the CD burning issue knowing I just
> wasted a whole 10 dollar pack of CD's and now have none left, as put me
> over the Goddamn fcreak!  Sorry for the strong language, but this is no
> more no less, than rediculous!  Does anyone know an alternative way I can
> burn this since the iso disk 1 downloaded fine, which is all Alex said I
> really needed escentially?  It isn't a matter of it not downloading, i
have
> all 625mb of it, it just will not burn!  I thought maybe the download had
> been corrupted, so thus, tried this morning to redownload it, only to my
> dismay, that it still didn't work...  I can't imagine that the image up
> there is corrupted whenever IE downloaded it entirely without crashing.  I
> will not! go back to Redhat or Fedora though as the netconfig utility for
> me anyways, seems very unspeech friendly, that is, compared to under
> Slackware, and B, The fact that I don't know how to update to the CVS
> version of Speakup...  i really could use some help though...  i want the
> littlest hastle of configuration possible...  I want it to automatically
> mount my windows drive on /dev/hda1 if possible, and automatically detect
> my sound card, SB Live Value EMU10K1, if possible.  Further more, I will
> not! tollerate this bug with Accent...  my Windows M E though is goin' bye
> bye.  Period...
>
> Please! someone help me...
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Chris Gilland]

Yeah, I still can't get the stupid thing to burn, and I don't know why to 
save my life.


You say you're more a Debian person...  I did have the thought cross my 
mind of Debian, but, again, how easy would it be for you and I to get my 
sound card up and running, and how easy is the netconfig interface under 
Debian, vs. say Redhat...


I know that with redhat, it was hardly manageable.  Some have told me that 
is just because I'm very impatient, which may be true, to an extent, I'll 
willingly confess it, however, this really is very s strange, as far as the 
interface for Redhat's netconfig, and Granted, I'd do fine, probably with 
Slackware 9.1 except how am I supposed to install it when I can't get the 
iso to burn properly...

Anyhow...


Chris.

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

This might sound like a stupid question, but did you check to make sure the
ISO image transferred in binary mode?


Geoff.


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Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Chris Gilland]

Well, a corse!  it's deffinently in the binary form.


Chris.

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Erik Heil]

Chris, I had absolutely no problems burning the CD's and even booting the
first CD with Speakup support.  Once booted, you type speakup.s
speakup_synth=keyword and it should come up talking.  In my case, I have a
Dectalk Express, so the keyword is dectlk.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Gilland" <chris@mailvision.ath.cx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!


> Well, a corse!  it's deffinently in the binary form.
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
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Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Chris Gilland]

You all just wouldn't believe! how much processor power it takes to burn a
disc under Windows!  man!  I had to slow down my 48x writer, all the
stinkin! way! to 8X, just to get the bazaared thing to burn!


Nevertheless, it finally worked...  Sorry if I got a bit repetative this
morning on the reflecter...  I know I probably may a bugged a few of yall by
asking the same things over and over, so sorry bout that, it's just...  You
can't imagine how annoying it is, going without my linux...  It's mine, and
all mine!!!  Waaaaa!  Chris sucks his thumb...  LOL!  just kiddin.



Chris.

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Chris Gilland]

Yeah, that was where my problem was...  I was used to doing it the old
fassion way from 9.0 with speakup.i and not speakup.s

Seems to be all right now...  hey, BTW:  is there a way I can install W3M
under Slackware?


Chris.

Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Alex Snow]

what happens when you try to burn the disk?
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 
07:49:31AM -0500, Chris Gilland wrote:
> Yeah, I still can't get the stupid thing to burn, and I don't know why to 
> save my life.
> 
> 
> You say you're more a Debian person...  I did have the thought cross my 
> mind of Debian, but, again, how easy would it be for you and I to get my 
> sound card up and running, and how easy is the netconfig interface under 
> Debian, vs. say Redhat...
> 
> 
> I know that with redhat, it was hardly manageable.  Some have told me that 
> is just because I'm very impatient, which may be true, to an extent, I'll 
> willingly confess it, however, this really is very s strange, as far as the 
> interface for Redhat's netconfig, and Granted, I'd do fine, probably with 
> Slackware 9.1 except how am I supposed to install it when I can't get the 
> iso to burn properly...
> 
> Anyhow...
> 
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: R'r'really fuckin pissed!

[Shaun Oliver]

at the risk of being helpful, Geoff Shang delivered up the following on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:46:43AM +1000, 
> Hi:
> 
> This might sound like a stupid question, but did you check to make sure the
> ISO image transferred in binary mode?
> 
*SNIP*

Geoff has a point, if your iso images weren't transfered in binary mode,
you'll run into problems.
the reason for this is because windows assumes text mode in all cases
and appends crlf terminators to the file you want to get via ftp..
it's quite fucked really, because you have to explicitly set your ftp
client to binary mode before you can transfer a file.
hth



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