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From: "John Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: speakup doesn't patch into 2.6.22.6
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:48:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <025101c7f09d$4fbb5fc0$4ba65c90@vv507j> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x7bqcgr9cm.fsf@speech.braille.uwo.ca>

Yes, that is my plan.  I got a large part of the way through a manual 
install on a laptop, fdisk, mkfs.ext3, debootstrap, apt-get kernel, and then 
I couldn't get grub to work.  The error was something about hdc not having a 
bios something or other.  Huh?  Who cares about hdc, that's the CD drive.

I intend to write an installation script.  I'm thinking that it would use a 
text  config file. You edit this config file, then run the script. It would 
be easy enough to tie that into a curses interface eventually.

Besides grub, there are a lot of other things that didn't work. I added 
wireless-tools but it didn't see my wireless card.  I booted my desktop at 
work and got no speech.

Still, I think it's a good first effort.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: speakup doesn't patch into 2.6.22.6


> Great idea John.  If you get it to the point where it can install some
> distribution like debian or something that would be another
> installation solution.  I don't know anything about Linux from Scratch
> but could that work into an easily installed distribution?
>
>  Kirk
>
> -- 
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Gregory Nowak
 ` Kirk Reiser
   ` John Heim
     ` John Heim
       ` Kirk Reiser
         ` Doug Sutherland
         ` Georgina Joyce
         ` John Heim [this message]
       ` Jim Grimsby Jr.
         ` John Heim

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