Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Wed Jul 16 20:26:01 EDT 2003


After editingsyslinux.cfg,did you run/usr/local/bin/syslinuxon your system, with the name of your floppy image or/dev/fd0as the argument to the syslinux binary?

Greg


>----- Original Message -----
>From: Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:36:21 -0400
>Subject: Re: Installing from the Woody Disks -- How?

>Thanks, Luke.

>It's chattering now, so I guess I'm on my way installing.

>Where was I stuck? I tried to hand edit syslinux.cfg to add
>xpeakup_synth=XXX, noting that "linux" was the default kernel. I
>doublechecked and didn't find errors.

>So, I re-imaged the resc1440.bin floppy and entered 'boot
>speakup_synth=dtlk' by hand.

>Search me. I should think the other would also have worked, but that's
>academic to me at this point.

>PS: I did look at the docs before posting. There's nothing at all in the
>woody directory--except the warning to not select any keymap whatsoever.
>And, of course the Debian docs don't refer to a Speakup option--not that
>the process is all that different from other distros.






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