cd burners, was: Re: RH7.2 w/Speakup enabled

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Just to clarify.  I wasn't saying that people shouldn't use howtos, what 
bugged me was that you said that it was a pain to set up, possibly 
discouraging others from attempting to try something that is pretty 
painless for a lot of us.




          Bill


On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Ok, but again, not everyone runs redhat.
> I for example run slackware, which doesn't do such hardware detection leaving me to read the cd writing howto.
> Yes, I know I could've picked redhat, but there was slackware's zipslack modified into zipspeak, and there was my drive entirely taken up by a fat32 partition, and there was me wanting to have a easy shot at linux (grin). So, that's how that story goes.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:38:11PM -0700, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote:
> > Actually, one of each.  The first system has SCSI, so, as you say, it was 
> > a piece of cake.  The laptop has an ATAPI CD burner.  When i got to the 
> > kernel parameters screen in the installation, I found that RH7.1 had 
> > detected the burner and placed "hdc=ide-scsi" on the line that would be 
> > fed to lilo.  I just moved the cursor to the right of the statement and 
> > added the all important "speakup_synth=audptr".
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >           Bill
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > 
> > > Then you must have a SCSI drive, but not everyone does. You were lucky there.
> > > Greg
> > 
> > 
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