Running Speakup on a zip drive

Janina Sajka janina at afb.net
Mon May 29 19:37:23 EDT 2000


So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's
getting pretty popular with us blinks! <grin>

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 at calweb.com
>      I C Q Number Is: 4781694
> 	
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net






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