Speakup and phoebe

[Janina Sajka]

Why not? Would ACB write a letter? I think the Director of Technology Research and Development at AFB will.


Charles Crawford writes:
> From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford at acb.org>
> 
> 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
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >--
> >
> >                                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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> >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
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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