New List Member

New List Member

[Bruce Pfeiffer]

Dear Listers:

I have just subscribed to the speakup mailing list, and wanted to see if
anyone could help me on the following.

I am planning on installing either Redhat or Slackware linux on my computer
system.  I use a Double Talk LT synthasizer.  My question is which boot
disks should I download from Speakup's web site.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Regards:
Bruce pfeiffer

Re: New List Member

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi Bruce,

     If you're installing RedHat-6.2, the bootdisks can be found at
ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/redhat/6.2.  download one of
the disks with ltlk in its name plus the README file and you should be in
business.  If you're installing from a local HD or CD-ROM then you'll
want ltlkb.bin.  If you're going to do it from a network, then its
ltlkn.bin.  Finally, if you want to load from a device attached to a
PC-Card/PCMCIA card you'd use ltlkp.bin.




          Hope this helps.
          Bill in Denver

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Bruce Pfeiffer
wrote:

> Dear Listers:
> 
> I have just subscribed to the speakup mailing list, and wanted to see if
> anyone could help me on the following.
> 
> I am planning on installing either Redhat or Slackware linux on my computer
> system.  I use a Double Talk LT synthasizer.  My question is which boot
> disks should I download from Speakup's web site.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> 
> Regards:
> Bruce pfeiffer
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: New List Member

[speakupl]

If you want to use Slackware you should use ltlk.dsk.  That is in
/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/slackware-7.1/bootdsks.144.


On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Bruce Pfeiffer wrote:

> Dear Listers:
> 
> I have just subscribed to the speakup mailing list, and wanted to see if
> anyone could help me on the following.
> 
> I am planning on installing either Redhat or Slackware linux on my computer
> system.  I use a Double Talk LT synthasizer.  My question is which boot
> disks should I download from Speakup's web site.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> 
> Regards:
> Bruce pfeiffer
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: New List Member

[Joseph Norton]

Hi Bruce:

If you want to install Slackware, you will need both a boot disk and a
root disk.  If you have primarily IDE hard-drives, you will need one of
the bare.i boot disks.  If you have SCSI equipment, you will need one of
the scsi.s boot disk images.  See the README file at the speakup ftp
site.  The address is linux-speakup.org.  I see you are using Microsoft
outlook.  If it'll let you click on it, here is a link to the README file:

ftp://linux-speakup.org/pub/speakup/disks/slackware/README

Also, check out the free Speakup Slackware audio tutorial.  You can either
get to it from the Speakup Audio page at:

http://linux-speakup.org/speakup-audio.html

or at:

http://www.nortcom.org

The only thing not adequately covered in the tutorial is the special
parameters you should use if your synth isn't automatically detected.  The
README file mentioned above does refer to these however.

Hope this helps.

Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Brent Harding]

				How do I make it, so if I connect to my system from somewhere else,
(probably will some day when I get dsl to use it to connect to the
Internet) How can I reboot the system such that it won't reboot to windows,
and reboot to linux instead. Is there a reboot command that will tell lilo
what to boot next time the system reboots? I have no tool in windows to
connect to my system, (that's for NT and costs lots) so telneting in to a
windows system isn't feasible. I have debian 2.2 on the system, on one
large partition, as I figured with 256 megs of ram swap wasn't needed,
although one could make a swap file if needed. I have lilo on the mbr, and
it boots windows immediately if I don't hold shift while it's booting
(everyone else in my family uses windows, and don't know about how lilo
works). Is the password keyword the best to use for this, so I could dial
in and enter a password so I'm the only one who can control what the system
boots to?

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi Brent,

     If you're using Lilo, you can run it with a command to be used the
next time you boot.  As root, type lilo -R linux  assuming the name of
your kernel is linux.  When you reboot, the system will come up as if
linux had been typed at the boot prompt.  The next time you reboot after
that one, the system will behave as before and boot into windoze. <yuck>




          Hope this helps.
          Bill in Denver

On
Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote:

> 				How do I make it, so if I connect to my system from somewhere else,
> (probably will some day when I get dsl to use it to connect to the
> Internet) How can I reboot the system such that it won't reboot to windows,
> and reboot to linux instead. Is there a reboot command that will tell lilo
> what to boot next time the system reboots? I have no tool in windows to
> connect to my system, (that's for NT and costs lots) so telneting in to a
> windows system isn't feasible. I have debian 2.2 on the system, on one
> large partition, as I figured with 256 megs of ram swap wasn't needed,
> although one could make a swap file if needed. I have lilo on the mbr, and
> it boots windows immediately if I don't hold shift while it's booting
> (everyone else in my family uses windows, and don't know about how lilo
> works). Is the password keyword the best to use for this, so I could dial
> in and enter a password so I'm the only one who can control what the system
> boots to?
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Victor Tsaran]

Bill, that was a very nice tip.
Thanks a lot for it,
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@mail.ufw2.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 11:11 AM
Subject: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default
back to linux


> How do I make it, so if I connect to my system from somewhere else,
> (probably will some day when I get dsl to use it to connect to the
> Internet) How can I reboot the system such that it won't reboot to
windows,
> and reboot to linux instead. Is there a reboot command that will tell lilo
> what to boot next time the system reboots? I have no tool in windows to
> connect to my system, (that's for NT and costs lots) so telneting in to a
> windows system isn't feasible. I have debian 2.2 on the system, on one
> large partition, as I figured with 256 megs of ram swap wasn't needed,
> although one could make a swap file if needed. I have lilo on the mbr, and
> it boots windows immediately if I don't hold shift while it's booting
> (everyone else in my family uses windows, and don't know about how lilo
> works). Is the password keyword the best to use for this, so I could dial
> in and enter a password so I'm the only one who can control what the
system
> boots to?
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Brent Harding]

So, if I telnet in to a dual boot system, and do lilo -R linux, and then
reboot, it should come back up the way it was before I brought it down to
reboot? Wow, never knew this was possible, now just to keep the connection
on the linux box open so it won't hang up, then things would work good.

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Tommy Moore]

Um,  what distro are you using? If your using slackware I have some
scripts ready ot go that you can put in to place that'll bring your
connection back up on the reboot.
Now the only issue left  to deal with is finding the box once it comes
back online. If you've got  a static ip no problem, but if not ou'll have
to use some service like yi.org ot handle that for you.

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Brent Harding]

I have static ip, but I use debian. Can lilo receive a call from a remote
location? I know if it's not used for awhile, the connection goes down,
thus the ip address becomes unreachable. I used dhs.org to make a hostname
out of it, easier to type that in. I probably will keep the same ip, even
if eventually I get dsl, but it probably won't be possible at such a time
to get lots, for extra machines. Right now, if I dial in both machines,
they're assigned the same ip, as that's associated with my username, and I
only have one modem, (would I really want to deal with setting up phone
systems to distinguish my computer call-in or everyone else's voice calls
to be passed to the answering machine, probably not).

Re: Lilo, and remote rebooting a system that boots windows by default back to linux

[Brent Harding]

Actually, in debian, I turned the no_ppp_on_boot to ppp_on_boot, so for now
it does it, but it won't dial if the connection ever terminates without me
stopping it. It seems that persist doesn't do what it should, it should
dial immediately after disconnect, or at least close after, it seems not to
do it, as I've been away for an hour or two from the machine, left it in
linux, and it wasn't online when I returned, persist would've put it back
online. I think, though, that diald thing is a waste, don't want to make a
new call every time I do something internet related. Setting the ip address
was another issue, I think I had to put a colon or period after it
otherwise it said my ip was a nonvalid option, although the system on my
isp's end would probably give me the right address, figured it was faster
to just specify it.