Newbie, Adding Speakup to existing RH7.2 installation

[Janina Sajka]

The images at octothorp.org and those in the redhat directory on 
linux-speakup.org are the same. They are the Speakup Modified Redhat 
distribution. You're better off to get them from the linux-speakup.org 
servers, because the network connection is better there.

Of course, as you suggest, you can also simply compile speakup into a new 
kernel for yourself. You must have the sources installed, and you must 
patch them with the speakup modifications before compiling. This is all 
explained in a file called INSTALLATION in the speakup directory at 
www.linux-speakup.org.

CAUTION: You may wish to do something to keep your existing kernel 
available, as was suggested earlier. That way, you have an out should 
things not go right. There are several ways to do that.

As for not hosing your partitions upgrading to a new installation, there's 
actually no need to lose anything in an upgrade--if you've set things up 
right. I do it all the time--but it works for me because my /home is a 
separate partition. I simply copy /usr/local to a temporary directory on 
/home, and do the same for my mailbox and /etc tree. It takes very little 
time to put things back after the upgrade.

Actually, I didn't say that right. There is an option to upgrade where 
your existing installation is simply updated. This is a menu selection in 
the installation program. What I was describing is a fully new 
installation of linux, where / and /usr (along with /var and /boot) are 
reformatted.
 On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Joe Clever wrote:

> Hi Listers,
> 
> I am a low vision user of linux and would like to add speakup to my laptop.
> I have been futzing around with linux for about a year, but am still a
> newbie. I already have stock Redhat 7.2 installed, along with WinME and
> WinXP. If it's not too difficult, I would like to install speakup without
> doing a full install of the modified Redhat/Speakup ISO's. I am basically
> afraid of hosing my current partitioning. Is there more to it than just
> replacing the kernel?  I looked through the mailing list archives for clues
> and saw mention of ftp://ftp.octothorp.org/pub/redhat-7.2/b1/RedHat/RPMS/.
> Are these the modified or stock RPM's?
> 
> Can someone give me some direction and/or point me to any specific doc's for
> doing this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
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