From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 413DA1EFA88; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1657D1EFA85 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from panix1.panix.com (panix1.panix.com [166.84.1.1]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D704715CFB; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by panix1.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 20712) id C520C14B9A; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panix1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45CA14B98; Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:37:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: jheim@math.wisc.edu, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer In-Reply-To: <56D715FA.8090702@math.wisc.edu> Message-ID: References: <56D6FC94.9050801@gmail.com> <56D715FA.8090702@math.wisc.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:37:53 -0000 What you do with slackware after getting it up and speaking is to run the setup program on disc1 of the set or on the dvd. The setup program itself runs scripts like setup.1 and setup.2 ..., setup.7 if I remember correctly is for setting up network connections. On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, John G Heim wrote: > Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:34:02 > From: John G Heim > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: Installing Slackware Without Hardware Synthesizer > > I could tell you how to install debian by manually repeating the steps > the installer does. But I am not sure that is possible in slackware. > Does slackware have a talking, live distro? Something like grml for > debian? With debian, what you would do is boot from a grml CD or thumb > drive, start speech, partition the hard drive, install a base system > (with debian this is done via debootstrap), install a kernel, install > grub and make sure it finds your kernel. You're done. So there are 2 > things you'd have to find the equivalent of, a live distro like grml and > the base system installer like debootstrap. If you can find those 2 > things, you're probably good. > > Another thing you might investigate are auto-installers for slackware. > For debian, there is this tool called fai (stands for fully automatic > installer). I don't know if there is a slack equivalent of that either. > On 03/02/2016 09:38 AM, Haden Pike wrote: >> Good idea. Any thoughts from others before I try this. >> >> Haden Pike >> Computer Science >> University of Kentucky >> Class of 2016 >> >> >> >>> On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Cleverson Casarin Uliana > wrote: >>> >>> Wouldn't it be possible to use a technique similar to that used to install > Gentoo? You could enter into a distro already installed on your machine, then > take the contents of the installation image and put each piece of software in > its own place. More exactly, if you know a little of shell script, you could > start reading the installer source code and manually reproduce what it does. >>> >>> Greetings, >>> Cleverson >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >>> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > --