running speakup and software synth

[John Heim]

Well, getting back to your original question, can you give the debian 
installer disk parms to boot into software speech? No.  You'll need a 
hardware synth to install from the debian installation CD.

It is possible to install debian linux via software speech. What you need to 
do is:
1. Boot a live distro with speech like grml or knoppix or oralux (or maybe 
ubuntu)
2.  Manually partition your disk. You'd probably use fdisk for this although 
different live distros might have different partitioners.
3.  Transfer the base system to your hard drive via  debootstrap
4. chroot to the new system
5. Install a kernel
6. Reboot

Obviously,  each step above is  quite a bit more detailed than that. But you 
can find documentation on manually installing debian  via google, If you 
google for terms like debootstrap, chroot, ffdisk, you will probably find 
them.

If you don't have a hardware synth, another thing you can do is install via 
a serial console. You'll need a special cable for that but it costs only a 
few bucks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cody Hurst" <churst35 at verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:53 AM
Subject: Re: running speakup and software synth


> That's vague. If I boot my debian disk I won't have speechd-up nor will I
> have speech dispatcher, so again, does a debian bootable isntall disk have
> software speech already on the disk or will I have to get a hardware synth
> to install.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13 at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:33 PM
> Subject: Re: running speakup and software synth
>
>
>> you can use an installer, but you'll have to debootstrap.
>> just get speechd-up and speechd-dispatcher I think. and read some docs 
>> and
>> configure, and you're good to go.
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield.
>> Vertigo head coder
>> "My programs don't have bugs, just randomly added features."
>> msn: compgeek134 at hotmail.com
>> email: compgeek13 at gmail.com
>> aim: st8amnd2005
>> skype: st8amnd127
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Cody Hurst" <churst35 at verizon.net>
>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 3:29 AM
>> Subject: running speakup and software synth
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  So I hear speakup will work with a software synth like festival. Is
>>> there
>>> a way I can grab a debian installer and type in a command at the boot
>>> prompt and have speakup come up running festival or some software synth?
>>> If so, what should I type and what site should I go to to get the debian
>>> install disk
>>>
>>> Cody
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