Speakup and phoebe

[Charles Crawford]

Is there someone to write at Redhat about this sillyness?

-- charlie.
At 10:34 PM 3/26/03 -0500, you wrote:
>As you've sadly discovered, Speakup is not included with Red Hat's current 
>beta called Phoebe, nor will it be included in the upcoming release of Red 
>Hat 9.0. We are
>hoping and expecting it to be restored to Red Hat in their next release, 
>but that doesn't help us now.
>
>The floppy diskette images from Red Hat 8.0 will not work for installing 
>9.0 or Phoebe. Bill Acker is working on a solution, but don't expect 
>anything for a few weeks.
>
>Meanwhile, if you have two machines available, you might be able to 
>install using telnet as follows:
>
>1.)     Boot the system on which you want to install using a non-speaking 
>boot floppy. You will press enter twice, I think--I will confirm this in a 
>forthcoming HOWTO.
>
>         Use the following command at the Boot> prompt:
>
>         text telnet
>
>2.)     Use your second machine's ping command as follows to discover the 
>address dhcp gave to your target machine.
>         ping -b x.y.z.255
>
>NOTE: You need to know what domain is providing dhcp in ytour network. For 
>example, on my system it's 192.168.10.*
>
>3.)     telnet to that address and install as usual.
>
>Of course, this won't take care of everyone. Please be patient.
>
>Bue Vester-Andersen writes:
> > From: Bue Vester-Andersen <listadr1 at dkblind.dk>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems like speakup is not going to be included with Phoebe. At least it
> > is not in the current beta. I downloaded phoebe in order to try 
> gnopernicus,
> > but I need speakup to operate in text mode. Can I just use the boot disk
> > from redhat 8.0? Will there be a special speakup release of Phoebe or will
> > speakup eventually be in the plain distribution.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Bue Vester-Andersen
> >
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>--
>
>                                 Janina Sajka, Director
>                                 Technology Research and Development
>                                 Governmental Relations Group
>                                 American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
>Email: janina at afb.net           Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
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