slackware and speakup docs

Raul A. Gallegos raul at asmodean.net
Fri Jun 8 18:56:37 EDT 2001


OK, for starters this is my proposal to be included in the README.TXT file
in the bootdsks.144 directory of slackware.  The README.TXT file briefly
explains the kernels found in this directory.  This is what I propose is
said about speakup.i and speakup.s.

These are 1.44 MB bootdisk images for Slackware Linux 7.2.0.

These disks use Linux kernel version 2.2.19.

You'll need one of these to get Linux started on your system so that you can
install it.  Because of the possibility of collisions between the various Linux
drivers, several bootkernel disks have been provided.  You should use the one
with the least drivers possible to maximize your chances of success.

You will be using the bootdisk to load and start a rootdisk.  See the /rootdsks
directory for these.

A bootdisk is created by writing the image to a formatted floppy disk
with RAWRITE.EXE under DOS.  For example, to use RAWRITE.EXE to create the
bare.i bootdisk you'd put a formatted disk in your floppy drive and issue
the following command:

C:\> RAWRITE BARE.I A:

*******************************************************************************
* Tip:  If you have no idea which bootdisk to use, start with "bare.i".  This *
*       is the correct disk to use for most systems with IDE peripherals.     *
*******************************************************************************

Note:  If you need to support an unusual hardware combination during the
       installation (for example, you want to do an NFS installation using
       a SCSI card and network card that aren't both in the scsinet.s image),
       then you may need to use a generic bootdisk like "bare.i" and load the
       additional drivers as kernel modules before running "setup".  See the
       README files in the ../modules directory for details on how to do this.

  All bootdisks except the no_smp bootdisks now support SMP (multiple CPUs)
  by default.

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Here's a description of the disks:

 These are the bootdisks for IDE based systems.  All IDE bootdisks support
 IDE hard drives and CD-ROM drives, plus additional support listed below.

    speakup.i             This is  the bare.i kernel compiled with the
			speakup screen reader patch from Kirk Reiser.  To use
			speakup you must have a supported synthesizer and
			give the lilo prompt a speakup parameter such as:
			ramdisk speakup_synth=nnn where nnn is one of the
			supported synthesizers; acntsa, acntpc, apolo, audptr,
			bns, dectlk, decext, dtlk, ltlk, spkout or txprt.

    speakup.s             This is  the scsi.i kernel compiled with the
			speakup screen reader patch from Kirk Reiser.  To use
			speakup you must have a supported synthesizer and
			give the lilo prompt a speakup parameter such as:
			ramdisk speakup_synth=nnn where nnn is one of the
			supported synthesizers; acntsa, acntpc, apolo, audptr,
			bns, dectlk, decext, dtlk, ltlk, spkout or txprt.





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