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[Janina Sajka]

Too bad. Bill has even been known to call people back on his dime, if
they can't afford the call. But, I suspect you'd have to ask nice.

So, to spite a 30 second fix you went and did a 30 minute install? Your
choice. Enjoy.

Janina


Janina

Daniel C writes:
> The entire document I find outdated. And while I found that number for phone
> support, I cannot call that number as I have no long distance and no money
> to get a phone card, so that's why I skipped that part.
> In order for me to minimize my already 10 hour or so downtime of my server,
> I've reinstalled FC7 for now until I can get some help that isn't phone
> related. Not to say that if I did have long distance that I wouldn't call,
> but because I have none, that's not an option.
> I already have customers e-mailing like mad about the downtime. I thought
> that I could just pop in the DVD and tell it to upgrade, and just maybe, be
> left with maybe configuring a few services here and there, but it turns out
> that what I've run into is an unaccessible Fedora without Speakup at the
> boot stage.
> Does anyone else have the same trouble as me about not having Speakup come
> up after a reboot?
> To make things easier, here is what I did, to be sure I am, "following
> instructions":
> 
> Install Process
> 
> 1. I inserted the DVD and booted the system.
> 2. After the DVD stopped, I hit down arrow once, followed by tab once then
> space once.
> 3. After doing tab once then pressing space once, I wrote speakup.synth=bns
> and hit enter.
> My Braille 'N Speak 2000 was found and speakup began talking.
> 4. It asked about a language and keyboard, etc. I went through all of the
> install options I needed and chose a root password.
> At the last stage, after package installation and the congradulations
> screen, I pressed alt+f2 and back-spaced and realized I was In a console
> because I back-spaced once and the machine made a beeping sound once.
> Next, I typed cd /mnt/sysimage and hit enter.
> Next, I typed chroot put a space and put a period then hit enter.
> Finally, I typed slash sbin slash chkconfig firstboot off then pressed
> enter.
> Lastly, I hit CTRL+d, then alt+delete and the machine rebooted.
> Somehow I was able to login to a console without doing anything, but then
> during the boot process speakup never loaded.
> Where did I go wrong in the above information?
> I'll attempt a reupgrade, only if I have information that will actually work
> properly in FC9. Otherwise, I've spent from 6:00 A.M. til 6:00 P.M.
> installing an OS that just won't work for me.
> Thanks.
> 
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