Announcing boot floppies for debian potato.

Tommy Moore stp at odysseus.yi.org
Thu Aug 31 21:52:08 EDT 2000


The reason for this is because I didn't know how Kirk and Gene had added that before, but when it says US keymap it's the US keymap with speakup support.


On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:02:12PM -0600, Steve Dawes wrote:
> I try these disks, and discovered that the Speakup key is missing from the
> list of key maps when configuring the keyboard.  This is different from past
> installs.  What is the reason for this?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> > [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Tommy Moore
> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 8:57 AM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > Subject: Announcing boot floppies for debian potato.
> >
> >
> > Hi guys. The images for debian 2.2 with speakup support are now
> > on the ftp site in the speakup area in /pub/speakup/debian
> > directory on bumpy.
> >
> > Right now there's just tha standard 1.44 meg images for the
> > default installation kernel, the kernels for all the synths that
> > are supported by speakup 0.09b, the base files and driver disks.
> > To install deebian with speakup support all the standard methods
> > can be used.
> > The only difference is that you'll have to install the drivers
> > and kernel from the floppies or the drivers.tgz file  and disk
> > images because when you install the drivers off of the cd it will
> > use the kernel image that's on the cd which you don't want.
> > Also you'll probably have ot install the base files off of the
> > disks or base2_2.tgz file but if you don't want to then you can
> > just replace the keymap file after the install, but I'm working
> > on a way to have cds of debian with speakup support so that you
> > can do everything off of the cd. This should be comming up in a
> > week or two.
> >
> > Anyways, have fun with this new adition to the ftp site and tell
> > me how things work out.
> >
> > Also another thing I want to add that if there's anyone who needs
> > an disks that are on the cd that aren't in the speakup area let
> > me know and I'll make one. No need ot have 5 copies of each type
> > of boot disk on the ftp site if there's no real demand for it,
> > but don't hesitate to ask if you need one that isn't there.
> > thanks.
> >
> > Tommy.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup




More information about the Speakup mailing list