From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org (linserver.romuald.net.eu.org [63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF2C10998 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:02:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 25950 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Mar 2009 14:02:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:02:16 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: booting from CD, shortcuts anyone? Message-ID: <20090319210216.GA24989@localhost.localdomain> References: <20090319190321.GA21829@cq.ftml.net> <20090319193542.GA23210@localhost.localdomain> <20090319195215.GA24071@cq.ftml.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090319195215.GA24071@cq.ftml.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:02:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck and all, no, sbm doesn't need to be installed on the laptop's hd. You'd install it on your debian system, and use it to generate bootable media. The documentation that comes with sbm will explain this in more detail. I'd suggest installing it, and you can always purge it if you find for some reason it won't do what you need it to do. Greg On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:52:15PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Greg, > > The sbm package is available in Debian, but I gather it needs to be installed on > the laptop's HD to use it. I must be missing something here. I'm not > understanding how it can help me, since to put it on the laptop's HD, > I'd need to have Linux running on it already, in which case I wouldn't > need it. > > But thanks for the info about the machine. > > Chuck - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknCstgACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyArrwCgnlMnGhBvGMRqsGFOjs/HBmi/ ZTwAoMUwfqOh0pkvCjaau1p81T/JXcXo =8OmP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----