Debian install with Software Speech?

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:52 AM
Subject: Debian install with Software Speech?


> Hiya,
>    I don't have access to a hardware speech synthesizer, and so was 
> wondering what the options are for me to get a Debian install.  I know 
> that Gentoo can run SSHD, and let me do the install manually with another 
> machine, but Deebian doesn't seem to do this.
> Does anybody have any advice?

I've done a couple of installs via the old serial tty approach. There are 
still a lot of howtos out on the web for this but briefly, what you need to 
do is attach a null modem cable to the serial port on the target machine, 
connect the other end to a machine that already has speech and fire up a 
terminal emulator program on  that machine.  At the boot prompt, type 'linux 
console=ttyS0,9600n8'. There are lots of variations on what you'd type at 
the boot prompt so consult the howtows.