Fedora 6 and Speakup on New Thinkpad

[Janina Sajka]

You're keeping a Win installation that came on your Thinkpad? That can
be done, certainly, but your first task may be to determine what hard
drive space you have available for Linux. If you're going to do a native
installation as opposed to only a vmware under Win, you may well need to
free some space for Linux. For instance, you may well need to shrink
some existing partition to create sufficient space for Linux.

PS: I would also strongly suggest you create at least three partitions
when you get to that point in the installation:

1.)	A / partition of at least10-12 Gb, and preferably more like
16Gb.
2.)	A swap partition of twice your RAM.
3.)	Give the rest of the space you free for Linux to your /home.

Guidance on doing a talking install over telnet is available at:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/2005-August/msg00038.html

Note that there is an error in this post. The correct way to specify the
particular ethernet device is something like ksdevice=eth0 or better
with your actual mac address like ksdevice=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

Good luck!

Janina

Beth Hatch writes:
> Hello to everyone,
> 
> Thank you Janina, Steve, Rick, and others who responded to my questions 
> about the Thinkpad.  I've been playing with the new computer and so I'm 
> a bit behind in my email.<smile>  Tomorrow I'm going to try to install 
> using two Linux machines as Janina and others have suggested while I'm 
> at school.  I have a Linux desktop there that I use, and that way I can 
> get someone to read a screen or two for me to make sure I don't blow up 
> anything.<smile>  I've installed Fedora several times on my home desktop 
> machine just fine, but this will be the first time I've tried a dual 
> boot system.  I'll be trying the VMware solution too as suggested by 
> Steve because it sounds cool and because it might help to know these 
> things while I am seeking employment.  Thank you all once again for your 
> suggestions and support, I'll let you know if/when I make any progress.
> 
> Thanks again!!
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hi, Beth:
> >
> > I don't know about the docking station serial port, but if it registers
> > as /dev/ttyS0, or some such, you should be OK. Of course, you may not
> > know about this until after you've installed Linux on your Thinkpad.
> >
> > I would suggest you can accessibly install FC6 using speech on a second
> > computer, probably your desktop. You need to have both machines
> > connected over tcp/ip networking, and then you can use telnet from the
> > desktop to the Thinkpad to install
> > FC6 on the Thinkpad.
> >
> >
> > Janina
> >
> > PS: Congrats on getting the 60. I'm still using an X31, but I'm a great
> > fan of Thinkpads myself.
> >
> >
> > Beth Hatch writes:
> >   
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I would like to set up a dual boot using Fedora 6 on my brand new 
> >> Thinkpad T60P laptop.  I already have a Linux desktop computer using the 
> >> Speakup modified Fedora 6, Gnome and Orca, etc.  Unfortunately, my 
> >> Thinkpad doesn't have an onboard serial port built into the system.  I 
> >> am wondering if Speakup would recognize my Dectalk Express hooked up to 
> >> either the docking station, which does have a serial port, or the 
> >> serial/parallel port bay adapter that I also purchased for this 
> >> computer.  The adapter fits into the ultrabay, you remove the DVD drive 
> >> and put the adapter into the bay instead.  I could probably install 
> >> Linux in graphical mode only using Gnome and Orca, but I would like to 
> >> have Speakup for use in text mode work and for the flexibility that 
> >> having Speakup access would provide for me.  Having Speakup available  
> >> would of course  allow me to  install Linux independently, also a very 
> >> important factor for me!!  I know I can use Speakup with software 
> >> synthesizers and speech dispatcher, but I need to get it installed 
> >> first.<smile>
> >>     
> >
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