installer update was.. three small installer questions?

[Karen Lewellen]

Actually I drew the impression about how the install process worked from 
the sentence below.


On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Gregory Nowak wrote:

>
> Ok, the debian installer itself could care less where your dectalk
> express is, or if you even have one. All of that is taken care of by
> speakup, which is loaded for you based on parameters you supply when
> you get the beep, and you're at the boot prompt.


Since to my experience at least, the installers are one and the same, 
there is even a configure the speech synthesizer option in the installer 
menu, to me sharing that debian could care less indicated that it would 
find the synthesizer once I indicated that I had one.
Further, the basic command for identifying the synthesizer itself, the 
codes provided, do not state, or not initially that other information is 
needful.
instead there is a name associate with the synthesizer type, without the 
need to specify where it is located.

In fact the default for the sound card, certainly different yes, but there 
none the less make no reference to the need for more information.
still you indicated other data might be needful even if the installer, the 
manual and the like did not clearly do this.

Karen




> > I don't know if the procedure for starting speakup with a hardware
> synth is the same in wheezy as it is in squeeze, so what I'm about to
> tell you applies to squeeze, but may not apply to boot from media which
> is intended for wheesy. I'll just go ahead and state here what you
> need to do to boot with a hardware synth using speakup in squeeze,
> since the info is spread out over a couple sections of the install
> manual, and requires more than 1 read to fully figure it out.
>
> 1. Power up the system with the boot media in the drive, and wait for
>   the beep (you should get one if your system has a pc speaker, which
>   it likely does as I said before).
>
> 2. Once you get the beep, arrow down once to choose graphical install.
>
> 3. Hit your tab key,  hit the space bar, and type
>
> speakup.synth=xxx
>
> , and hit enter.
>
> The xxx is speakup's name for your synthesizer. So, for a dectalk
> express, I believe you'd type
>
> speakup.synth=dectlk
>
> , but don't quote me on that. If all went well, you should get speech
> from your synth 30-45 seconds after pressing enter, if not
> earlier. HTH.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:07:14PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> Hi again,
>> Sorry very busy past day or two.  I am likely given your idea
>> waiting too long then.  I  plan trying again tomorrow, perhaps based
>> on your answer.
>> for the record, as the discussion in the other associated threads
>> demonstrates, I am not actually wanting to install wheezy at all.
>> I have DVD images of squeeze.  however  as I cannot boot from DVD,
>> and the cd image comes with a way to install the system on my own,
>> my goal was to follow Samuel's steps  for installing squeeze instead
>> once I reached the mirror archive question.  He already gave mt to
>> understand that debian will not care where the  install data is
>> coming from.
>> Your confirmation that it will just skip the network  install option
>> confirms this too. I will have to set up one manually later.
>> I agree a thousand percent with just using  my dectalk express.
>> How can this be done without  sighted assistants?
>> I recall from the install manual that one uses the graphical
>> installer, but again if debian  does not know until later in the
>> install process where the dectalk is, what is done up to that point?
>> Thanks again for your wisdom,
>> Karen
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