From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from AndreLouis.COM (home.andrelouis.com [84.9.60.34]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4583BC1A3CA for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:42:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Spooler by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.72) ID MO003C18; 9 Apr 2010 04:42:01 +0100 Received: from spooler by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.72); 9 Apr 2010 04:41:52 +0100 Received: from tess (121.72.135.252) by AndreLouis.COM (Mercury/32 v4.72) ID MG003C17; 9 Apr 2010 04:41:51 +0100 Message-ID: <1E43CA3EA18E483590044437E676956A@tess> From: "Arthur Pirika" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: trouble installing linux Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 15:41:39 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:42:19 -0000 hi, I have a strange problem, and wondering if anyone here has any ideas. I want to play with linux, but would like to try it in a vm under windows, to try things out. I have two distros here, arch, and grml. I'm using windows xp pro sp3, and vmWare player 3.01. Arch loads perfectly fine, speakup comes up, but lately, arch is seeming to have trouble retrieving packages. Protocol and/or timeout errors are the norm here. Even selecting different mirrors doesn't help. Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i know, I'm giving the boot loader grml swspeakup as it's options. Maybe i need to try a different vm? btw, this is grml 2009.10. tia, Arthur.