help requested for speakup1.0

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Don:

You have the CD ROMS for Redhat 7.1, right? Do you have enough room on 
your hard disk to put that much data on it? Should be about 3 Gb. Do you 
have 3.Gb plus a little more free?

Reason I ask is that there's a simpler way to get 7.2 to you than 
downloading 3 Gb of data. It's called rsync.

As to whether you need more than just the speakup tar ball--yes, you 
certainly would, if you're going to upgrade via that route. You would need 
the kernel sources, and you would then need to patch the kernel with 
speakup, then compile a new kernel. Big job, though many of us here have 
been doing just that.

But, there's likely another way. Let's examine the options for a few days 
before you dive in. In other words, lets poke around in the water before 
you jump into it! Wouldn't want any of those sharks Kirk's talking about 
to bite you! <big grin>

 On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, djc 
wrote:

> Last night we tried to install speakup1.0 and following the read me we
> couldn't get it to install. I'm running RedHat7.1.  have the older speakup
> running fine but I'd like to update it. We moved the tarball ok and we just
> couldn't get it to find the directories it needed. My friend was assisting
> me and he was using xwindows. I did download the speakup.tar.gz from the
> speakup site. Is that the only file I need? I did see a speakup
> configuration file but I didn't think I should have downloaded that one so
> I didn't. I also would like to know if it's to my advantage to update
> RedHat to 7.2. That is going to be an extremely long download and before I
> do that I'd appreciate thoughts. My RedHat is running fine but I've always
> felt that it's important to keep up to date with changes. Thanks for any
> assistance.
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