----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 11:17
AM
Subject: Re: upgrading from rh 8.0 to 9
with speech, and gnopernicus
Hi Brent,
OK. Here's a quick and dirty rundown on
what needs to be done in order to interactively and independently install
Red Hat 9. Unfortunately, there's currently no Speakup modified
distribution as there was for Red Hat 7. I hope Bill, Kirk and
the rest of the guys who are competent with the programming end of things
will be able to rectify this situation in the near future. I'm a good
network/systems admin, but not much of a programmer...
:-)
OK. First, here's what you
need:
Red Hat 9 CD-ROMs
Two boot disks based on boot.img and netdrv.img
from CD.
2 computers: target system & box with
DHCP server & telnet client
We will call the machine onto which Red Hat 9
is being installed the target and the machine with the DHCP server and
telnet client the manager.
Here are some steps:
1.
Set up DHCP server on the manager to assign a
single IP address. You will use this address later to access the
target using the telnet client.
2.
Insert the first boot disk into the
target's floppy drive and boot the system.
3.
After disk activity has stopped, but before 10
seconds have elapsed, type the following command:
text dd telnet
Press enter to proceed.
4.
After disk activity has ceased, insert the
second boot disk (the disk with the network drivers) and press enter twice
to proceed.
5.
After disk activity has ceased, press tab then
press enter. You have only about one or two minutes to proceed
with the next step.
6.
Using the telnet client on the manager,
initiate a telnet session to the IP address you have configured in the DHCP
server.
7.
Proceed with installation, being
careful to watch the cursor tracking... :-)
Hope this helps.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:21
AM
Subject: Re: upgrading from rh 8.0 to
9 with speech, and gnopernicus
Wow, OK, it'd be cool if one can do it with a
single machine, as I definitely don't have 3 systems available, one for
dhcp, one for speech, and this one to install to, or don't you need
that?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 9:43
AM
Subject: Re: upgrading from rh 8.0
to 9 with speech, and gnopernicus
Hi Brent,
Agreed. I am very disappointed that
we do not yet have a Speakup modified distribution set of RH 9 as we did
for versions of RH 7. There is a way to do it through telnet, but
you must have a DHCP server to assign the IP address, etc. I can
write a fairly detailed explanation of how I accomplished the feat, but
I'll have to do that for you over the weekend.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003
1:07 AM
Subject: Re: upgrading from rh
8.0 to 9 with speech, and gnopernicus
Wow! I guess the 8 bootdisk won't go to
http down 9. The name of the first image it needs is different, i
guess, wonder how I'll get this updated? Sighted assistance is no
option.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003
1:08 AM
Subject: upgrading from rh 8.0
to 9 with speech, and gnopernicus
Is it OK to use my rh 8.0 network boot installer
disk to upgrade to 9.0, so I have speech through the process? I
understand I have to install the kernel RPM to have speakup, but I
don't have another system to do it by telnet. (I hope to be getting
a Pac Mate soon, as state rehab purchased one for me, as I decided
that I thought it's better than the braille note because of
connectivity, and that you can use audible.com and other Pocket PC
apps that the bn doesn't allow for. Does it have an accessible
telnet client so I could pull the install off that way, or should I
just use the rh 8.0 bootnet.img and point the http to the
appropriate directory for 9 on redhat's server? I may give it a try
anyways, sort of updated some gnu stuff manually to attempt
gnopernicus, but am having trouble with glib and gtk and autoconf
and cspi, and other stuff like that. What would I need to do to 9 to
prepare for gnopernicus to install? I have the script someone sent,
errors out on 8.0, think I need to ad the all important
#!/bin/sh
line to the top, but the compiles error
out on 8.0, choking on autoconf not being the right version when
trying to compile gtk or glib, since gnopernicus needs a later lib
than 8.0 provides.
Thanks.