From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from c877730-b.grlnd1.tx.home.com ([24.4.110.227] helo=dalek.dhs.org ident=mail) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15x9Z1-0005js-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:10:31 -0400 Received: from davros by dalek.dhs.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 15x9Z2-0007sN-00 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:10:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:10:32 -0500 From: Buddy Brannan To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: help for a newbie Message-ID: <20011026111032.D30111@dalek.dhs.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011026163805.009e6440@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011026163805.009e6440@mail> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Actually, the filenames are very useful if you know what you're looking for. As I've just done this, these instructions should get you started: 1. Go to ftp://ftp.braille.uwo.ca/pub/speakup/disks/debian You can either go to images-1.44 and get floppies, or get the larger files and install from your hard drive off a DOS partition. (I'll tell you about the disks.) The disks you'll need are in the images-1.44 directory under the main debian directory: rescue.bin root.bin driver-1.bin driver-2.bin driver-3.bin driver-4.bin You'll also need rawrite.exe from the dosutils directory. >>From DOS (might work from a DOS window, but better to do under DOS) use rawrite to put these disk images onto six blank floppy disks. You'll also need base2-2.tgz somewhere. I don't know where it can be had via http from braille.uwo.ca, but I happen to have it on my system...so no worries, we'll get there in a second. Anyway, to boot the system, stick your rescue disk in your drive and turn your computer on. When the drive stops spinning, type linux synth=something where something is the synthesizer designator. (For example, if you have a Doubletalk LT, use linux speakup_synth=ltlk If you need to know which synth designator you need, we can tell you, but we need to know which one you have. Press enter after you type this, then just follow the instructions as they come up. It's fairly self-exlanatory. When you get to the bit where it installs the base system (fairly far down the lit), I have it at http://dalek.dhs.org Just put that in when you select to install your base system over http, and set the port as port 80. Course, if you want a bootable CD instead, you can get (from the same /pub/speakup/disks/debian directory) debian2.2-speakup.iso, which is a bootable, speakup-enabled Debian install CD. You'd boot it in similar fashion to the above-mentioned rescue floppy. Is this clear as mud? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV | From the pines down to the projects, Email: davros@ycardz.com | Life pushes up through the cracks. Phone: (972) 276-6360 | And it's only going forward, ICQ: 36621210 | And it's never going back.--Small Potatoes