CentOS

[Tom Moore]

As far as I know this hasn't been done yet.
I was planning on starting some work on this, but never got the process off
the ground.
One thing I am unsure of is exactly which kernel should I make my patch off
of. 2.6.18, 2.6.18.4, this I am unclear about.
I found some instructions on how to add the needed lines to the spec file to
add Speakup in, but didn't try out a test build.
This guide tells how to modify the kernel on Centos.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
Hope this might be enough to get you started.

This in itself though isn't all that is needed. This would just add Speakup
in to the kernel so that after the system was installed I could get it
talking.
This probably doesn't fix keymap issues with in the installer itself though.
For doing the install I use a kickstart file to answer the questions I want,
but I had to come up with this one by trial and error so this took some
time.
Also one bad thing I can think of is that Centos doesn't have a telnet
install option. From what I remember they do their remote installs via vnc
and this won't work for us.

Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:26 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: CentOS

Has anyone ported speakup to CentOS? For those of you who don't know,
CentOS is a RedHat product. (Basically the enterprise version without
support) CentOS is extremely stable, and does not come out with new
versions at the same speed as Fedora does. (Fedora, another RedHat
product.)

I am interested in a Centos install if it can be considered as a
candidate for speakup, and all the other accessibility offerings found
in fedora. 



Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes at calgary.ca


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