Speak supported Distributions:

[Kelly Prescott]

At various times I have used a boot cdrom I have customized, a USB key that
I have customized, and in the good old days, a boot floppy!
Probably the easiest way is to use a usb key to do it.
Then add a ks.cfg to it and that should get you going.
Another interesting way to do it is to take a good installed image and dump
it onto the drive of the system you want to install and customize it.
Most of this does require some extra effort, but it yields 2 things:
1:  satisfaction
2:  lots of extra knowledge about how the internals of  centOS or any
distribution works.

 
Now, some people neither need or want this, but this is what I like to do.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:18 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

What do you use for a "kick start disk"?

Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott
Sent: 2010 February 10 9:15 AM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

I still use CentOS, but I just use the stock distribution.
I use ssh to administer it.
To install, I write a kickstart disk that makes all the important install
choices for me.
Once it is up and running, ssh from my speakup equipt desktop does the
trick.
I have built and administered hundreds of servers this way.
Everything from mail servers to phone systems to web servers and clustered
virtual servers.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:38 AM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

What would you suggest for a server?

Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>
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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott
Sent: 2010 February 09 4:57 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

Yes, but for a regular machine I could not tell a difference.
I would not run a server like that, but for my personal machine which I use
to access server machines, I think it is just fine.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:10 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

Kelly,

In creating a custom kernel, did you loose out on the customizations that
are in the centos kernel by default?


Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.>

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott
Sent: 2010 February 09 1:14 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions:

Steven, I just compile a custom kernel from scratch, and then lock the
kernel rpm so it can't be updated.
You can't patch the centos kernel as there are a lot of mods to it, but they
have not impacted my operation any.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:34 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: Speak supported Distributions:

Does anyone have any experience using speak with centos?
If not, what is involved in adding speakup into the centos kernel?
I know that centos is the open source version of RedHat enterprise Linux, so
I thought there may be someone who has done this on the list.
I am interested in going to centos because I am finding it hard, with time
constraints, to keep up with the latest version(s) of fedora.

Thoughts and opinions welcome.


Stephen Dawes

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