slackware and speakup docs

[Steve Holmes]

My only suggestion is to replace the 'bare.i with speakup.i' when talking
about rawrite.  That is if this readme is going to speak only about
speakup.


On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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