Tried to send this once before but I don't think it got through. Can't help with the speech stuff - Mika probably can.

Any trouble and the manual is probably on the grml disk or see http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html for the single page manual. It is pretty good.

Moss

= = = = = Jerry,

I think the way to do this is make a separate 2 gb partition. If you have already installed grml on your first hard drive "/dev/hda1" using only one partition then the program parted or gparted can be used to resize it. You must be root and these programs usually like to have the disk they are working on unmounted so you will probably have to boot the grml live cd to a root console. (Just press enter after the boot is complete.)

Suppose you have a 200 GB disk and it is all hda1. Then do this:

parted unit GB resize 1 0 198 mkpartfs primary linux-swap 198 200 quit

This launches the partition editor which by default looks at /dev/hda. Then it changes the units to GB and then resizes the first partion to start at the beginning and end at 180 GB without losing data. It may take some time depending upon your processing power.

The next command makes a primary partition on your freed space, of type linux-swap and formats it.

All the parted commands can be put into a single file, let us call it "script" and then you can double-check all the typing and then do the lot with a single command.

parted -s script

swapon /dev/hda2

Allows you to continue working and use the swap partition. grml will automatically see the new swap partition on a reboot when it rebuilds the file system table /etc/fstab - unless you have disabled that option.

Best Wishes Moss

Hello, I am a blind computer user, and am trying to install GRML on my

laptop computer. My setup is as follows:

I'm using the speakup_synth=ltlk boot parameter to start my external

synthesizer, however I wish to also use a 2 gb swap partition that I have

created just in case. How can I run grml2hd to do this? Also, how do I

go

about installing TTSynth to have software speech via Speakup afterwards?

I

have the deb image needed for TTSynth. I just need the library it needs

to

install. And also, what steps are needed to get Gnome and Orca running?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but this is the best Linux distro that has

detected all my hardware, and seems to work the best with the sound

card,

which is a must when you are a blind laptop Linux user. So any help I

could get would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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* Jerry Matheny starnoble@gmail.com [20071204 22:52]:

Hello, I am a blind computer user, and am trying to install GRML on my laptop computer. My setup is as follows: I'm using the speakup_synth=ltlk boot parameter to start my external synthesizer, however I wish to also use a 2 gb swap partition that I have created just in case. How can I run grml2hd to do this?

grml2hd automatically tries to detect present speakup bootoptions if you used them for booting the live-cd, so it should just work. :)

Regarding your other questions check out Maurice's mails.

regards, -mika-