Running Speakup on a zip drive
Janina Sajka
janina at afb.net
Tue May 30 10:51:15 EDT 2000
I love my Linux, but I'm positively astounded at how quickly other blind
folks are moving to Linux. I always expected it to happen, but it seems to
be going more quickly than I expected.
Seems almost every week someone who I thought of as a Windows mayven is
saying just what you, Don, are saying.
Downright, delightful, actually.
Janina
On Mon, 29 May 2000, djc wrote:
> I agree Janina. I'm sure tired of windows crashing on me <grin> I got the
> zip issue fixed and that's running fine and my linux is running great.
>
>
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> On 5/29/00 at 7:37 PM Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> >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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Janina Sajka, Director
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