Slackware instalation issues

[erik burggraaf]

Thanks man,  I'm all set.  My box comes up talking now.  Grin.  I think part
of the problem may have been that I opted not to install lilo because the
installer warned that it might dammage partitions.  I'm not sure why this
seemed like a big deel, I've only partitioned the thing 7 or 8 times in the
last few days, but it was late, and I'd just spent hours going through the
new be instalation with verbose prompting.  *holds head*
Well, I'm off to hunt in the docs for some things, but I do have one thing.
It takes for friggin ever to get this box running.  I booted, heard the bios
beep and finding the floppy, then a few seconds of hd whir, then... nada. I
went and set up a cd in the burner, came back, and was half way through a
panic Email when it woke up and started rattling off info about system bios,
and which pages were reserved for what.  Any idea what it could be doing?
Is this normal?  I'm running a p-150 mhz processer, 48 mb ram with a 90 meg
swap partition and a 1.2 g boot partition.  I've done a basic install of
lilo excepting most of the defaults, except of course for passing the
parameters speakup_synth=txprt and speakup_ser=0, and I chose to install to
the mbr instead of a bootable linux partition, because obviously I'm not
going to be running anything but linux for now.
If you could re-assure me on this,  I'd be greatful.
Thanks.
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at ev1.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Slackware instalation issues


> On 10/16/02  3:18 PM -0400, erik burggraaf wrote:
> > Hi list.  I'm finally getting set up with a linux system here, after
wining
> > about it for 2 or 3 years.  It's been fun, but I've got some questions
and
> > consearns not dealt with by the instalation documentation I've read.
Some
> > are speakup related, others are symply linux related.
> > First of all, I'm having trouble detecting devices here.  For example,
> > although my ardic transport is located on com1, I need to issue the
command
> > speakup_ser=0 whenever I load into ramdisk, or the thing won't fly.  How
can
> > I ensure that when I get all this straightened around, my synth will
auto
> > detect?
>
> You may have to put an append line in your lilo.conf, something like
> append = "speakup_synth=txprt speakup_ser=0"
> or if you have a cd writer
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi speakup_synth=txprt speakup_ser=0"
>
> > Next, I keep losing my partition mounts and cd rom drives.  According to
the
> > documentation, they should stay put,but they haven't.  One possible
reason
> > is that my swap is hda2 and my EX2 linux partition is hda1.  I'm off to
> > switch that around now.  Could there be any other reasons why they don't
> > stick?
>
> I really don't think it matters if your root partition is hda1 or hda2.
> Do you have the partitions you want to be mounted automatically at boot
> listed in /etc/fstab? Maybe I'm not understanding you though if devices
> are somehow unmounting at random.
>
> > Finally, I've been through all the packages and so on available on the
> > slackware cd image.  Is it worth installing gnome or x-windows?  They
look
> > nifty, especially gnome, but how speech friendly are they really?
>
> The gnome in slackware 8.1 won't work as yet with gnopernicus. The people
> in the know say that gnome 2.0 and gnopernicus should have a useable
> version released by the end of this year. So you might as well save hd
> space and skip x altogether for now.
>
> > Thanks for any help and advice.
>
> Just remember that man is your friend and don't hesitate to ask
> questions.
>
> > Erik
> >
> >
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