Hi, Cheryl: Glad to hear you've had success. It's definitely not the easiest install to have success with, which is why there's a HOWTO. And, I think you're right about redoing your partitioning. The realy downside to the default partitioning scheme is that it makes it harder to protect user data such as /home and /usr/local. If there's only a little content in this directories, I suppose this isn't so much a problem. But, if there are gigs and gigs of such data, it's a serious issue. So, I guess I'm saying to do this sooner rather than later--before you acquire too much in /home. Cheryl Homiak writes: > Well, Janina, you won't find out by me if you're wrong because I suspect > you are right. > I went ahead and followed the steps for turning off firstboot and kudzu > and cups and my machine booted fine. But due to the fact that i hadn't > noticed I had the caps lock key on when I typed my root password, my caps > and lowercase password characters were reversed and i couldn't log in; > fortunately the three-finger salute worked. Then I used the braillified > disk so I could access the first cd as a rescue disk and was able to set > up brltty at boot and change the run level etc., and when I finished i was > able to boot and figure out my login problem. I think I probably had an ok > install with speakup too; i'm sure there must have been a minor mistake > that kept it from talking and I don't think it was booting completely > because I got beeps when trying to log in, but this way I'll be > well-versed in FC > installation. I will probably do it again eventually because I never did > manage disk druid and finally just allowed the automated > partitioning--yuck!!! So i'll probably go in and wrestle with it again > eventually. > > -- > Cheryl > > "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) Email: janina@xxxxxxx Phone: (202) 408-8175 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list