From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.171] ident=mailnull) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F81j8-00051G-00 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:52:18 -0500 Received: from 24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com ([24.105.197.112] helo=hq) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1F81j8-000AjE-8u for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:52:18 -0500 Received: from chuckh by hq with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F81j7-0003wt-UV for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:52:17 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 24.105.197.112 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: corcyra Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:52:17 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: debian installation Message-ID: <20060211205217.GA15134@hhs48.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <002001c62f2d$2a4f1f20$c2a9e744@nedelko83f1172> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002001c62f2d$2a4f1f20$c2a9e744@nedelko83f1172> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 From: Charles Hallenbeck X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 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: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:52:19 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ned, There is scanner support in Linux with a couple of Debian packages, but I am not sure it is as accurate as the stuff for Windows yet. Scanners are supported with a package called "sane" (scanners are now easy) that gives you a command line application called "scanimage". Then the OCR part is done with a package called "gocr" (you install both gocr and gocr-doc) and that too is a command line program. So, they work, but I am not sure how well. Chuck On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:04:01AM -0700, Ned wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed debian with speakup in my classroom successfully after going through the process once with my instructor. It went so smoothly to the point of being incredible; I mean that was the first ever OS I have ever installed on my own. > > Now, you guess, I want to do the same thing here at home on my own machine, and that's where my questions start: > I have XP Pro on my 40-gig hd which is not partitioned, and I decided to buy one more hd on which I want to install Linux. That 2nd hd would be a slave, so how do I tell the debian to install itself onto that hd and to boot up from it? Is this the best solution? I could get rid of everything that is on the current hd and install Linux only, but in that case, will linux support scanner on which I depend so much? > > I need to get this done asap! > > Bytheway, is there anybody willing to sell a hardware dec talk synth? > > Many thanks in advance! > Ned > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full) But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD7k6BXnuiIOyDVQURAvpIAJ93GPxlBE1GE5tEO9gqjC+LA7pXTwCgqe43 8rj+v48TgQV/YMmEwYG8egY= =DsEa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----