Debian netinst CD with speakup

Jim Grimsby jimgrims at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 20 11:38:36 EDT 2005


Hi, try booting it using the speakup26 kernel instead 
Hth 

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of
jaffar at jeffstudio.net
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:31 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup


Hi I don't know if this is an appropriate thread on which to discuss
this 
on, but the netinst Cd would not boot and I seem to get no response
either 
from the CD or when i typed in the speakup command at the boot prompt.
I 
have set the bios on my pc to boot up with my Cd drive, so I can't
exactly 
be sure what is really happening here.  Fedora and slackware, for
example 
did spin during the boot up and after the text commands for each was
typed 
in, but i got no response from the debian netinst CD at all, no spinning
to 
speak off.  Don't know what to do next.  Cheers!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; "Speakup Distribution List" 
<speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Debian netinst CD with speakup


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> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:05:03 AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>> The disk installs Sarge/testing, but Sarge is no longer testing, 
>> since it was promoted to stable on June 6. Testing is now called 
>> something else. So what do I get if I now do an install with that CD?

>> Do I get Sarge/stable? or the new testing? Will there be an 
>> opportunity to specify which I want during the install? perhaps by 
>> dropping to a shell prompt and editing something? I will be doing two

>> more installations later this week and hope to avoid surprises.
>
> Short answer: If you have the 3.1r0a CD just install it and it'll 
> work.
>
> Long answer: I think the answer depends on exactly which revision of 
> the netinst-speakup cd you have. If you downloaded it a while back you

> might have a copy that was for the testing ditribution, but if you 
> have the 3.1r0a version then what you have is for stable. You can of 
> course edit /etc/apt/sources.list after you install and specify 
> stable/testing/unstable or sarge/etch/sid whichever you prefer. As an 
> interesting note, according to the debian top brass who are supposed 
> to know about these things, changing entries in /etc/apt/sources.list 
> is not the canonical way to choose which version you are running. I am

> not completely clear on the details, but it looks like you can have 
> all three of stable, testing, and unstable listed in sources.list and 
> then choose the default release you want by putting the line 
> APT::Default-Release "stable"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf. This file will 
> not exist by default. I think this might be a good idea because it 
> allows you to run selected packages from testing or unstable while 
> keeping the bulk of your system running stable. It is rather an 
> advanced option, so as the saying goes "if you break it you get to 
> keep all the pieces."
>
> - --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
>
> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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