Sorry for not answering the question properly. My head is mince with lack of sleep. For gnome and orca try
apt-get update && apt-get install gnome-orca Regards Moss > 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, >> >> Jerry _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
