Instalation of Slackware 8.0 - help!

[Steve Holmes]

No, no, no.  Do not use those three files and do not fall back to 2.2.16!

The Slackware ISO images do contain a speakup.i file under the
bootdsks.144 directory.  Use that as your boot disk and be sure to include
the lilo parameters to select your synthesiser.  For example a doubletalk
user would enter something like
speakup_synth=dbltlk  I believe the defaults yield no speech because the
default synth is none.

You would enter the command "ramdisk ....

Actually, come to think of it, there is a readme.speakup or something like
that on the slackware disks; take a look there since more details are
given than what I just offered here.

On 2 xxx -1 pkisz at main.amu.edu.pl wrote:

> I tried hard to install Slackware 8.0 with kernel 2.2.19. Have an
> installation cd. To manage boot and root floppy disks was fairly easy by way
> of rewrite.
> Installation goes smoothly, I have done it many times. Then the
> problemstarts. After rebooting , the machine is silent. Seems to be that
> somehow speakup is lost. I start with loadlin, not lilo, from the DOS
> patition. I tried both umsdos.gz and color.gz . Only way was to change the
> kernel 2.2.19(as vmlinuz)
>  to 2.2.16 and next add 3 files: dumpspk, loadspk and
> speakupconfig. I placed the files into /usr/byn/The files were taken from
> Zipslack which I have used since August 2000. I also have added some lines
> into speakupconfig so it is possible to change language.
> I have no kernel speakup.i in my Isolinux only bare.i etc. Only in
> bootdsk.144 and tootdsk.12. When tried to put them as vmlinuz loadlin says:
> setup is very old or wrong.
> Thank in advance!
> Prem Kiszkowski
> Net-Tamer V 1.10.1  - Test Drive
>
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