New Debian Install - HELP!

[Steve Holmes]

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Yeah, I got past that now.  I did it by pressing down arrow once
followed by tab and then typed speakup.synth=spkout.  That part
worked.  I am having a hang-up right now as grub is the default loader
and after the install finished, I was forced to reboot.  First of all,
I don't know how to interract with grub and over-ride kernel
parameters; but worse yet, my machine at the moment won't boot into
anything!!!.  I have an existing windows partition on the first disk
and am I'm installing linux on the second disk.  Apparently, grub did
not configure this properly.  It's like windows is trying to boot
strait away and grub never comes up at all.  I'm now sitting here
waiting to errase the entire linux partition so I can start over with
Debian and maybe I can get the thing to skip grub and install lilo
instead.  I know lilo from my Slackware days and I know it is capable
of booting on one drive and dual booting for both windows and linux.
Plus I can make lilo talk at the beginning.  Grub looks to o
convoluted to me as a first impression.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:21:55AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> Try just typing speakup.synth=spkout after pressing tab...I seem to 
> remember with the new debian install disks you don't type install 
> anymore.
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:40:10PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I just downloaded two recent install CD's for Debian Lenny; one from
> > June of this year (Beta 2) and a testing image dated today Oct 9th.  I
> > have a speakout synth hooked up on ttyS0 and am using it at this very
> > moment.  But alas, I cannot get it to work with these Debian boot
> > disks.  The command I'm using is 
> > install speakup.synth=spkout
> > I tried this with and without pressing tab first.  In all cases, I get
> > no speech.  I saw in the f8.txt that speakup could be used but in
> > parentheses, they said graphical installer only so I also tried 
> > installgui speakup.synth=spkout
> > Again, no speach then either.  What could be wrong here? I thought
> > these latest CD's would have kernels compatible with Speakup.  Do I
> > still have to go out and boot with a dedicated boot disk like Samuel's
> > disk?
> > 
> > Thanks for helping.
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