Speakup Install options?

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:26:23AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
>     Aside from that, are there any known options for serial communication which have been tried out and work?  If so, what, and if not, what else can I try?

Well, if you still want to use a physical machine, you have a few options open to you, none of which require a
serial port. You can install gentoo via ssh, or fedora via telnet, and
setup software speech afterwords. You can install debian via
debootstrap, but this has room for error, even if you use grml's
grml-debootstrap. The install in this case should go ok, and you can
even install software speech after installing the base system, but if
software speech doesn't work after you boot into your new install, if
the log files don't shed light on the problem, and if you don't have a
sightling to read the screen to you, so you can figure out where
things are going wrong, you're pretty much screwed. I guess you're
also screwed if you want to install slackware, unless there's a way to
do it without a serial port/hardware synth that I don't know about.

If you have access to another machine with a serial port, then if you
want to install debian, slackware, or any other speakup-patched distro
for that matter, you could install on the second box, and then either
image the installed system, and move it over to the first system
without a serial port, or just take out the hd from the first system,
dump it into the second, install your distro, and then move it back
into the first box. This could also work with a vm, (I.E. install on
the vm with a serial port, setup software speech so it works in the
vm, image the installed system, restore the
image to the physical partition(s), and boot into your new system on
the physical box). Hth.

Greg


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