talking install

[Kirk Wood]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Pete De Vasto wrote:
> The concept of being able to do a "talking install" really is cool!  I'm a 
> system administrator, and I often get asked to do installs for users.  If I 
> used a "talking install", CD to get a system up and running, and then 
> wanted to turn a system over to a user who wouldn't need speech, am I right 
> that all I'd need to do is disable speakup loading from lilo.conf?  Or am I 
> making it too simple (smile).

Actually, you just disable the speech output. Speakup is built into the
kernel and will always load. But if you have the install done right you
can later come back and install your sunth and turn speakup on. I suspect
that you would want to get into how to change keymaps if this is the idea
in your mind. Sighted people won't want to give up their number pad so the
administrator can have speech. All the same, it is quite possible to use
speech to setup the computer and have it ready to go with a couple
commands.

I your from a macroslop background, there are many advantages to Linux
including being able to protect the system from the user for the most
part. If companies knew, they would switch to X windows with all the
associated problems quickly.

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Kirk Wood
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