Installing From Boot Disk

Sun Apr 1 19:36:02 EDT 2001

Hi,

You need to install a talking kernel on your hard disk.  You need to download the kernel for your synth from the speakup site (and I don't mean the boot disk kernel, I mean the regular kernel).  Put that on a DOS flopy.  From here I'm assuming you have a log in prompt and are able to log in as root.  If the above is correct, then do the following
1.  Put the flopy with the kernel in the drive.
2.  type the following without the quotes: "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt"
3.  Type the following after pressing enter when you're done with step 2: "cp -a /mnt/" kernelname " /vmlinuz" and press enter.  Kernelname is the name of the kernel that you just downloaded.
3.  Type: "lilo", and press enter.
4.  Type: reboot", and press enter.  You're system should restart talking.
If you're not able to log in as assumed above, then I'm not sure what you should do.  If any of this is incorrect since I'm running Slackware 7.1 myself, then somebody please feel free to correct me.
Greg

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pete De Vasto" <pdevasto at incyte.com
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:54:28 -0700
>Subject: Installing From Boot Disk

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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, all:</FONT></DIV
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm brand new to this list, so I'm sorry in advance
>if this has already been asked.  I'm new to speakup, as I learned about it
>at a Linux Accessibility conference that was held as part of CSUN a couple of
>weeks ago.  I was trying to instal speakup on my RedHat 7 Linux system so
>it would work with my Accent-SA.  I downloaded acntsab.bin, created the
>boot disk, and when I started my computer, it did start talking to me.  I
>tried doing the install from a RedHat 7 CD-ROM, and got through the install OK
>with the exception that the X-server configuration did not complete
>successfully.  I don't know if this would have made a difference, but when
>I rebooted the machine it did not come up talking.  What can I check, or
>what should I do differently if I try the install again?</FONT></DIV
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll looked at the README file in the directory of
>boot disks, but if there's any other documentation I need to read, let me
>know.</FONT></DIV
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><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, in advance, for any help.</FONT></DIV
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