best way to install rh9?

[Lorenzo Prince]

Well, since you'd be connecting through a Windows box, telnet may not be
the way to go.  I think kickstart may be the answer here.  I am not sure
of any kickstart test program however.
As for the Speakup keymaps, they seem to be available, as I saw them
while doing a telnet install on my laptop.
And no, I haven't tried to patch CVS speakup into the RH kernel source
yet, but I probably will in a couple of days and I'll let you know if it
works.

Lorenzo

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Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi
> I'm thinking about giving redhat 9 a shot. I've been out of the rh world
> for quite a while--ever since 7.2, which I didn't care for. Since rh9 lacks
> speakup, what's the easiest way to install it? Should I use a kickstart
> file or install by telnet? I'm leaning toward kickstart file, as the other
> computer on my 2-computer network does not have linux on it and I'm not
> sure how well a windows telnet client with a windows screen reader would
> work in giving me feedback. It's the family computer and they like that
> micro$hit. Just want some opinions here.
> next question: Is there a way that, after creating a kickstart file, I can
> test it for parse/syntax errors? Is there a program that will do this that
> I can get ahold of? I'd rather not find out during installation that I
> messed up and blew my hd partitions away, or made some other stupid mistake.
> final question: In rh9's kickstart docs it says that speakup and speakup_lt
> are keyboard map options you can pick from. But rh9 doesn't have speakup.
> Are these keymaps still available even though speakup isn't, because if
> they are, I'll set the map that way from the start. If not I'll need the
> kbd speakup rpm in addition the the kernel rpm for the Athlon which I can
> grab easily enough. At least I assume that's what the kbd rpm on
> linux-speakup.org is for. Also, has anyone patched cvs speakup into rh's
> kernel source, or do I need a clean source?
>