[Fwd: Re: Adding speech to IFL]

[Tony Baechler]

Yes, but does it include Speakup on the boot CD?  There's clonezilla 
also but I don't think it supports Speakup out of the box.  Image For 
Linux also backs up to network or USB from the CD which I don't know if 
the others do or not.

erik heil wrote:
> Hi.
> Well their is one solution called mondo. One of its strengths is that it can do complete bare metal restores. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 7:55 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Adding speech to IFL]
>
> Hi all,
>
> Yes, I realize that this is not open source software and will turn off 
> many of you, but it is a good disk imaging and backup program and I 
> highly recommend it.  It is rare that a commercial company will go out 
> of their way to support the blind community and especially a relatively 
> small project like Speakup, so I would encourage you to please take a 
> look at this.  If there are free software alternatives that work as well 
> and have the current Speakup from git built-in, I'm certainly not aware 
> of them.  If you register, I think you get free upgrades for life but 
> you would need to check the site.  They also offer Image for DOS and 
> Windows, both of which are very accessible.  I find their software far 
> better and easier to work with than Ghost which I couldn't use at all.  
> I suppose one could use dd which is part of coreutils, but it doesn't 
> offer compression and would still require a live or rescue CD to use 
> outside the boot drive.
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: Adding speech to IFL
> Date: 	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:52:02 -0400
> From: 	TeraByte Support (TP) <tomp at terabyteunlimited.com>
> Organization: 	TeraByte Unlimited
> To: 	Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net>
> References: 	<49B66FF4.90107 at optonline.net> 
> <49B693E1.9060406 at terabyteunlimited.com> <49B7C966.1010302 at baechler.net>
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>
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> I got delayed by other issues yesterday, but I'm now making the test
> copy with Speakup 3.0.3 available at the following link:
> http://tpdirect.homeip.net:1081/ifl-speakup-unreg.zip
>
> The zip file there includes the iflnet.iso file, a readme file, and the
> spkguide.txt file that comes with Speakup. The readme file hopefully
> explains the rest well enough for users to try it.
>
> Please note that this ISO file contains the trial (unregistered) version
> of IFL 2.26. I asked, but am not able to provide the registered version
> for this test. Hopefully, that will be OK.
>
> I will keep the test version available at that link for as long as
> necessary - or at least a week or s
>
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