help with linux and speakup?

[Gregory Nowak]

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One speakup enabled rescue cd is system rescue cd
<http://www.sysresccd.org/>. It includes parted, and much more.

As for the loadlin based distribution Lorenzo mentioned, such a beast
does in fact exist. It is called zipslack, and it is based on the
slackware gnu/linux distribution. It consists of a zip file which you
unzip onto your windows partition, then edit \linux\linux.bat, get
into dos mode, and just type \linux\linux.bat. Its advantage is that
it can run off a windows partition. Its disadvantage is that it will
only run on a fat16 or fat32 partition, it will not run on a ntfs
partition. Do note that you will need to replace the default kernel
that comes with zipslack, with  the speakup.s kernel. 

There used to be a distribution called zipspeak, which was zipslack
with a speakup kernel by default, and a few other modifications, but I
don't know if it is still being maintained or not. If you do in fact
have a fat32 partition and not an ntfs one, and want to go the
zipslack route to start with, myself, or someone else on the list
would be happy to give you directions on how to get up and running
with zipslack.

Greg

P.S. You can find zipslack at <http://www.slackware.com/>.



On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:21:12PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> You will need to repartition your drive as far as I know.  The installer has a
> partitioning program, but I don't know if it will resize your existing
> partition.  You may need to find some sort of talking rescue disk that includes
> GNU Parted to actually resize your Windows partition so you can create the new
> ones for Linux.  You also may want to see if there are any Speakup-enabled
> distros that work with loadlin.  I can't really help you much with that, since I
> have never used it, but I know it boots Linux from DOS or something like that.
> But the best thing to do is try to repartition your drive.
> 
> Lorenzo
> -- 
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