Installing speakup via software synth

[Janina Sajka]

Cool. I count this as one machine. Looking forward to the HOWTO. 

John G. Heim writes:
> Today I installed speakup w/o a hardware synth and w/o a second machine 
> (unless you count a network connection to a debian archive as having a 
> second machine). Here is what I did:
> 
> 1. Booted via Oralux CD
> 2. installed base system via debootstrap
> 3. installed speakup modified kernel, dectalk software, speech-dispatcher
> 4. modified  grub's menu.lst
> 5. rebooted
> 
> It works! Sorry I can't provide more details but I did not take adequate 
> notes because it didn't exactly go as smoothly as the steps above might 
> imply.  I had a lot of false starts and did a lot of backtracking. But 
> eventually I did get it to work. I hope to start over now that I know how 
> to do it and will write a howto as I go.
> 
> 
> Step 2 is documented here:
> http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html
> 
> Obviously, step 3  is the real mystery. But basically what i did was scp a 
> bunch of .deb packages to the PC and run dpkg. I don't think that counts as 
> using a second machine. It's like a network install.  Instead of scp, I 
> think I should have been able to do  apt-get to install the kernel and 
> speech-dispatcher but I got a ton of errors and I didn't know what they 
> meant.
> 
> 
> One stupid thing I did was copy kernel and dectalk software to a CD but I 
> couldn't use it because the oralux CD was in the drive. I didn't even think 
> of that until I was just about to eject the CD.
> 
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