Hello, Martin: I realize your message was posted some time ago--I'm just catching up on mail ... Two comments: 1.) Don't use Shrike. It's the beta that culminated in the release of Fedora Core 1.0. So, use Fedora Core instead. A Speakup Modified Fedora Core is at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/fedora/1 The installation HOWTO for Red Hat 9 is still accurate for Fedora Core: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html Once installed, you need to switch consoles with Alt-F2, cd to /mnt/syslinux, do a chroot . and finally chkconfig --level 0123456 firstboot off If you fail to do this, your system will boot, seemingly working, then suddenly stop speaking. You won't be able to get out of it except by cycling power. Firstboot doesn't respond to Ctrl-Alt-F1, in other words. If you don't do this at the end of installation, you can do it by going to single user mode and issuing the above chkconfig command. 2.) If your system won't boot from CD ROM, you might want to try using telnet from a second machine which has speech. Obviously, both machines would need to be on a network. To use telnet issue: text dd telnet at the boot> prompt after booting the target system. You can do this from floppies, but will probably need sighted assistance for the first few screens. Once you can telnet to the target machine, you'll have full speech support. Martin Courcelles writes: > From: Martin Courcelles <martinfc@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi there: > As I can't seem to find some kind soul to create me a Debian brltty boot disk with Power Braille support, I decided to try my hand at installing Redhat with Speakup. > Unfortunately, I cannot install the Shrike as it depends on a bootable cdrom. I've gotten 2 different people to look at my bios to figure out how to get the computer to search the cdrom for a boot sector. For some odd reason, it doesn't work. And this Shrike no longer supports the boot floppy function. > So I'm at a loss. > Any suggestions? > Martin > > ******************************************************* > *** Life is all good! *** > ******************************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list