slackware 12.0

[Zachary Kline]

Hi,
    Perhaps I missed the initial message in this thread, but I was curious 
why you'd need to go through the DD steps and all?
    I just ran the speakup.s install directly.  Granted, I have a hardware 
synthesizer, so that makes a difference.  It just worked for me though--dd 
seems an extremely brute force approach.  I don't like brute force in most 
circumstances.
Hope this helps,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:48 PM
Subject: slackware 12.0


> What may work for that version for speakup install is to install only
> packages that come off of disc1 then use dd -if /kernel/speakup.s -of
> /boot/vmlinuz.  The setup script doesn't ask which kernel to install and
> probably forcibly installs the boot kernel if any even though speakup.s is
> used to do the install.  I tried a full installation and never got disc2
> out to replace it with disc1 so tried this alternate approach this
> afternoon.  I'll try it again and do the last dd -if step and see if I can
> get me something that works.  Real hairy this time.
>
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