Question regarding talking redhat install.

[Aaron Howell]

actually, thats one part of the install i disagree with (but its personal preference so it doesn't much matter).
I find Grub on the whole to be a better boot loader than Lilo.
You can do a lot more with it, e.g booting kernels from anywhere off your hard drive, searching the filesystem, etc,
as well as all the things that Lilo does.
I selected grub when i did the install, I was prompted for any kernel options i wanted (that's where I put in my speakup synth option),
and after I did the kernel install and rebooted, things came up talking nicely (which was what I expected).
If it was me, I'd be recommending users use grub, unless they wantt a talking boot prompt through making lilo use the serial port as a console (not sure if grub can do that or how).
Regards
Aaron
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:40:30PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> hI, aRON:
> 
> yES, YOU MOST CERTAINLY DO WHAT YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT. dOWNLOAD THE
> APPROPRIATE FLOPPY IMAGE FROM THE sPEAKUP WEB SITE. tHIS WILL
> GIVE YOU A SPEAKING INSTALLATION. gO AHEAD AND USE YOUR STOCK rED
> hAT 7.3 cd romS TO INSTALL vALHALLA. tHE INSTALLATION WILL TALK,
> BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE SPEECH WHEN YOU BOOT YOUR INSTALLED SYSTEM,
> BECAUSE THE STOCK rED hAT cd romS DON'T INCLUDE THE KERNEL
> PATCHED WITH sPEAKUP.
> 
> sO, YOU SHOULD ALSO OBTAIN THE APPROPRIATE KERNEL RPM, PROBABLY
> IN ADVANCE. oNCE YOU'VE INSTALLED FROM THE STOCK rED hAT DISCS,
> GO AHEAD AND BOOT AND LOGIN AS ROOT. THEN INSTALL YOUR sPEAKUP
> mODIFIED KERNEL AS USUAL WITH RPM AND REBOOT.
> 
> yOU MAY ALSO NEED TO EDIT YOUR LILO.CONF BY HAND.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Aaron Howell wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > I'm about to install RedHat for the first time with speech.
> > I've done multiple RedHat installs in the past with sighted assistance, so am pretty confident I'll be able to do the install ok.
> > I do have a question though, and that is,
> > If i already have standard RedHat 7.3 distribution cds,
> > Which (if any) of the modified cds do I need to complete the installation?
> > I ask because at work we're required to account for the bandwidth we use, so I'd prefer not to have to pull all 3 iso images if it turns out only disk 1, or 2, or something, is different to the standard RedHat install.
> > Or, alternatively, can i get away with using the standard RedHat cds, boot my system with the talking install disk,
> > then get the speakup modified kernel?
> > Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.
> > Other than the above question I think I'm ok at this stage.
> > Regards
> > Aaron
> > 
> > 
> 
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> 	
> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> 				Technology Research and Development
> 				Governmental Relations Group
> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
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> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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> 
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