Obtaining Debian

Robert Spangler spangler.robert at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 12:57:04 EDT 2008


My friend just tried to boot it for me, who has sight, and told me that 
it says speakup.synth invalid option or something.


Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Robert Spangler, le Fri 01 Aug 2008 01:46:52 -0400, a écrit :
>> I burned the ISO to a CD and am trying to get it started.  So, when it 
>> starts, I press tab and type speakup.synth=ltlk (because I am using a 
>> Double Talk LT).  How do I know when the prompt is up?  I have not been 
>> successful in getting it to start yet.  Will it automatically boot up 
>> another kernel if I don't act in time?
> 
> There is no timeout.
> 
> Having the debian installation CD beep at the prompt is currently in
> discussion on debian-boot, there is a test image on
> 
> http://brl.thefreecat.org/mini-beep.iso
> 
> Note:
> I probably forgot to mention: these images were built with the debian
> speakup modules version 3.0.2+git20080517.dfsg.1-2, iirc there was a
> crash issue in that version with some devices and ltlk.
> 
> Samuel
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