Installation of Kernal.

[Jason Custer]

Hi
Well, there may be an easyer way, but I don't know it so here goes.
Sence you were able to get the speakup disk running, you probibly have dos
or windows with a talking screen reader. In this case, here is what to do.
Note that steps for doing this in redhat only are after this, but if it is
possible to do these steps with speech it will make life easeyer for you.
dos steps.
1. copy the file loadlin.exe from the redhat disk. On my 6.1 disk it is in
/dosutils.
2. copy the file vmlinuz from your speakup boot disk.
3. type loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdxx rw
4. now that you have speech, look at the linux steps below.


linux steps
1. mount your flopy drive. The redhat disks for my 6.1 use vfat when making
the boot disk. So, do mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
2. cp /mnt/vmlinuz /boot
3. type lilo
4. reboot your now speaking linux.
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Note that this kernel doesn't support several things such as some fat
systems networking, and several other things. As a result, you will probibly
want to make another kernel.

Good luck!

Hope this helps. If you need more details, let me know.
Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Ward <tward at bright.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: Installation of Kernal.


> Hello, list. I am sure this question is one that should be pretty simple,
> but at the moment I can not think of what to do.
> Do to a recent hard drive failior a couple of weeks ago I do not have any
of
> my custom kernals, and I just installed Red hat 7 onto a machine, and
gotit
> operational.
> However,  during the install Red Hat did not ask if I wanted to install a
> kernal from the boot disk. Please, understand the talking boot disk has
the
> only talking kernal I have at the moment.
> How doI install the Red Hat 7.0 2.2.16 Kernal from my setup disk to my red
> hat 7.0 installed machine.
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
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