From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca([129.100.2.63]) (3627 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:45:30 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from janina2go (nyc-dyn-03d.cosmoweb.net [208.223.113.63]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4V1jWS16296 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:45:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by janina2go (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04486; Tue, 30 May 2000 10:51:15 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: janina2go: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:51:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Janina Sajka X-Sender: janina@janina2go To: djc cc: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Running Speakup on a zip drive In-Reply-To: <200005291725570480.001E5300@smtp.calweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: I love my Linux, but I'm positively astounded at how quickly other blind folks are moving to Linux. I always expected it to happen, but it seems to be going more quickly than I expected. Seems almost every week someone who I thought of as a Windows mayven is saying just what you, Don, are saying. Downright, delightful, actually. Janina On Mon, 29 May 2000, djc wrote: > I agree Janina. I'm sure tired of windows crashing on me I got the > zip issue fixed and that's running fine and my linux is running great. > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 5/29/00 at 7:37 PM Janina Sajka wrote: > > >So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's > >getting pretty popular with us blinks! > > > >I must confess, I love it. Can't wait until I can do everything I want > >in Linux--which is definitely not the case yet. > > > > Janina > >On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc > >wrote: > > > >> Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put > >> linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive > on > >> the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load > line > >> to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is > drive > >> D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of > the > >> opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I > >> read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix > this > >> so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so > >> all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to > >> get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > >> mailto:djc@calweb.com > >> I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > >-- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Information Systems Research & Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > >janina@afb.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > mailto:djc@calweb.com > I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina@afb.net