Grub was Re: Installing Speakup separate from Linux.

[Thomas Ward]

Hi, Janina. Well, as a rule of thumb I tell grub to give me  a long pause so
I know I am at the prompt, and when booting from Linux to Windows I know
that grub highlites the last operating system that was last used. If I am in
Windows I know to up arrow to Linux, and wam am in Red Hat.
If I want to switch to Windows I restart wait for the Grub prompt and down
arrow to Windows.
Lilo I think is a little more accessible, but grub allows the passwording
of partitions which allows some security.

----- Original Message -----
From: Janina Sajka <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Speakup separate from Linux.


> Hey, Thomas,
>
> Since you're supporting grub, may I ask how you deal with multiple
> configurations in grub? In other words, how do you know what configuration
> you're going to load? And, how do you know when to indicate the
> configuration option you want for any particular boot?
>
> I ask this because, when I looked at grub a little over a year ago, I saw
> no clear way of providing a sonic prompt such as one can introduce in lilo
> via a couple of Ctrl-G's in /boot/message. Also, it was unclear to me
> whether one could alias configurations into a single keystroke as you can
> in lilo.
>
> Please advise.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:
>
> > Hi, Anna. You have a couple of options. First off you can get the
speakup
> > enabled rpms of the Red Hat kernel, modules, etc, and install that over
top
> > of the existing kernel in your installation.
> > Second, choice is to download the lates 2.4.17 kernel tree, patch it
with
> > speakup, and compile from source.
> > As for boot loader it doesn't really matter. Although I suggest grub.
Grub
> > is a good boot loader, and I suggest using grub if you have an ext3
> > partition.
> > One thing is for sure you will want ext3 partitions, because they are
much
> > more stable than ext2.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Anna Schneider <annas at drizzle.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:56 AM
> > Subject: Installing Speakup separate from Linux.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Okay, so the place i'm buying my computer from will install a GPL
version
> > > of Red Hat which I like because they will test it with the CD Writer
and
> > > the video and sound cards, and their version includes a driver for the
HP
> > > 1200 laser jet which I can have regardless of whether or not I buy the
> > > printer from them.  So I'm going to have to install Speak Up later on
my
> > > own.
> > >
> > > Now, if I just want to install Speak Up without a distribution, do I
use
> > > the tar.gc file of it and follow the instruction under installation?
This
> > > was in the index of various readme and key map files on the Speakup
web
> > > page.
> > >
> > > And when I talk to the people at Pogo Linux, would I want to make sure
> > > that they choose the installation options for their version of Red Hat
> > > that the Speakup how to recommends, such as choosing lilo and the
custom
> > > installation and text of course and so on.  I've got it all written
down.
> > > I'm assuming that this will make less trouble for me later?
> > >
> > > I will need help installing Speakup if I go this route, correct?
> > >
> > > And lastly, how do I know which sireal port gets which designation?
> > >
> > > Thanks much.  I'm ordering my computer tomorrow. Very very excited.
> > >
> > > Anna
> > >
> > >
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> Janina Sajka, Director
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> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
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>
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