installing fedora

[Janina Sajka]

Someone wrote me off list about problems they were having using telnet
to install Fedora. I'm sorry. I accidentally deleted the message before
I could answer it.

Here goes the answer ...

The exact syntax you provided wasn't correct. Maybe it was only a top of
the head typing error, but I can't tell about that. I only know it's
incorrect.

Also, try spcifying the mac address of your ethernet device. It's a much
more certain approach.

Ping the machine you are accessing before you try a telnet connection.
If ping doesn't answer, something is wrong. Could be anything--you're on
the wrong subnet, you supplied a wrong gateway--any number of possible
answers.

All I can say is that telnet installs work if you set them up properly.
I've done many.

Full instructions available at:

http://SpeakupModified.Org/telnet_installation.html

Janina

Janina Sajka writes:
> I use telnet and 'upgrade existing system' to install Fedora. If you
> overwrite with a fresh install, you'll not have /home as a separate
> partition--something I avoid like the plague.
> 
> Bill has been having luck with febootstrap recently. However, as it
> seems you've discovered, febootstrap will require quite a bot of by hand
> configuring, e.g. /etc/fstab and /etc/sysconfig/network.
> 
> 
> With specific reference to yum, you might simply copy over old
> /etc/yum.repos.d files. These use tokens for the release version, etc,
> so are likely to work provided the targets haven't changed their
> directory structure, etc.
> 
> hth
> 
> Janina
> 
> Alonzo cuellar writes:
> > hello, How do people install fedora these days. I don't think there is a version with espeakup available and I beleive you need a hardware synthesizer to use speakup modified.
> > There is this febootstrap, but I've not had any luck in getting it to work since yum.conf does not have any mirrors and /etc/yum/repos.d does not have any data. Any pointers/help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Alonzo
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.202.595.7777;
		sip:janina at CapitalAccessibility.Com
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada
Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com

Chair, Open Accessibility	janina at a11y.org	
Linux Foundation		http://a11y.org

Chair, Protocols & Formats
Web Accessibility Initiative	http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)