From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net([199.45.39.156]) (2272 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:50:07 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from sajka.bellatlantic.net (adsl-151-200-20-29.bellatlantic.net [151.200.20.29]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA29030; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:50:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by sajka.bellatlantic.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA06511; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:50:15 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: sajka.bellatlantic.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:50:15 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-Sender: janina@sajka.bellatlantic.net To: Gene Collins cc: speakup@speech.braille.uwo.ca Subject: Installed OK But No Speech Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: This is mainly a note to Gene Collins who's been giving me a direct hand with a Debian install. But, I'm cc'ing the list to maximize my help resources! I've just concluded installing a base Debian 2.2 on my IBM Thinkpad 560Z. I'm pretty certain the install went smoothly. No complaints during the process, at least. Also, I know that lilo is working as it loads and I'm able to restart with a Control-Alt-Delete. I have no speech, however. Is that to be expected at this stage? The way I had speech during the installation was to pass speakup_ser=1 to the kernel. Seems linux sees my ir port as ttyS0, and my serial as ttyS1. Anyway, I'm in a new kind of funny position. I tried at first to linload following a floppy DOS boot. That didn't work because the something in the process accessed the floppy which just spun and spun. So, I booted Windows and did a shutdown to MS DOS. On the Thinkpad that forces a reboot into DOS. But now I can't get back to that DOS prompt because lilo never gave me the opportunity to specify a second OS. So, I can't now get back to a hard-disk boot of DOS in order to try and boot my installation from linload. Any ideas? Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net