Newbie Installing Redhat

[Saqib Shaikh]

I can't solve your problem but maybe I can answer your question:

If you decide to buy the CDs then go ahead and do so. Then you should be
able to use the speech-enabled bootdisk from your faulty CD to boot the new
CD. Therefore you'll get speech from the bootdisk, but will use the new CDs
which haven't been modified for Speakup. Then afterwards, you could probably
get an RPM of a Speakup kernel and install a talking kernel. And until you
get the talking kernel you can also boot from the disk and mount the root
partition from the newly installed system.

As a newbie this may all sound quite complicated so please don't hesitate to
email me: ss at saqibshaikh.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Hare" <eh51 at cornell.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:29 PM
Subject: Newbie Installing Redhat


>
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbie installing RedHat for the first time, thanks to Janina, who
> provided me with the CDs.
>
> There is a problem with the installation, it gets to one package
(Something
> about USB, but unfortunately I didn't write that down) and stops.  It
tells
> me to hit enter to try again.  THe problem is that it never works, and it
> doesn't give me any other options, like getting this package and
installing
> it later.  I have to abort the installation because all it will let me do
> is try getting this package again.  (I suspect there's a problem with the
> disc, although it also offered the possibility of a bad package.)
>
> I don't have a fast connection so  Ican't download a whole new disk.
>
>
> What I"m wondering now is, how hard is it really to buy the RedHat CDs,
> install them, and then install Speakup.  The Speakup website says you
> should have some experience playing with the kernel, which I don't have.
I
> realize I will also have to hijack a pair of eyeballs for a few hours.
>
> Liz
>
>
>
> Liz Hare, Ph.D.
> Research Associate
> Animal Breeding and Genetics Group
> B47 Morrison Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853
> (607) 255 2380
> eh51 at cornell.edu
>
>
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