help with install of debian and speakup!?

[Tyler Littlefield]

lol, I have installed it with speech, but, someone said there were 14 cds. 
maybe if I do the network install, I can skip burning all of them... off to 
do that...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at hhs48.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!?


> The linux utilities are called "fromdos" and "todos" but they are in a
> package called sysutils which you have to get with apt-get also.
>
> You know what I would do if I were you? I would start over again with a
> fresh install of Debian making sure I could get speech right out of the
> Debian box from the get-go.
>
> What CD did you use? Is it the speakup modified net-install disk
> everyone else uses? What hardware synth do you have to put on your
> Debian box?
>
> You can install Debian using speech and without sighted assistance, by
> starting like this once your installation disk reaches the boot prompt:
>
> speakup speakup_synth=ltlk
>
> where ltlk stands for the litetalk, or some other abbreviation if that
> is what you have. Then carefully follow the instructions, and be sure to
> pick "network install" instead of "install from CD" when the question
> arises.
>
> It's no big deal to start over. Look at what you've already learned
> doing what you have done. Next time will be a snap.
>
> -- 
> The Moon is Waning Gibbous (98% of Full)
> But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
>
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