We'd be quite happy to consider publishing kickstart scripts at the Speakup Modified. I believe you're aware that the successful Fedora installation actually leaves such a script be hind as a little gift for your next installation effort. Certainly something to consider. Jude DaShiell writes: > hmmm, > > I'm sure the packages themselves are perfectly good else why would the > media check pass? I suspect you well could be correct in suspecting the > fedora text mode installation. I've seen examples of kickstart scripts > before and can read them and describe what's being done. Perhaps it might > be useful to put one of these together and release it to the speakup > community if I can get it to work along with configuration instructions > for variables others may need to change. > > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Janina Sajka wrote: > > >Both the SpeakupModified Fedora, and the stock Fedora are available in a > >DVD iso image. > > > >I believe Dave Mielke provides a boot.iso image which contains brltty > >support so that you can install using braille. That image would > >undoubtedly serve only the default Fedora iso images, however it will > >get you going. The only cost is that you'll have a major updating with > >yum--but that's certainly not the end of the world. > > > >Once your Fedora is installed and updated, you can retrieve the > >SpeakupModified kernels and configure software speech. This approach > >should indeed work. > > > >Janina > > > >Kristoffer Gustafsson writes: > >>Hello! > >>When using the speakup install of fedora 6 can I use the braillefied > >>installer to install? > >>I have no hardware speech, but I want to use the cepstral voice I have > >>with > >>speech dispatcher. > >> > >>Also, is there a dvd image available for the speakup modified fc6? > >>/Kristoffer > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >>To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:17 AM > >>Subject: Re: FC-6 speakup install failures > >> > >> > >>>These errors are not actual fact. What I mean is that you can, and we > >>>have, determined that the packages which appear to cause the failure are > >>>actually present and pass their checksums. So, something else is going > >>>on. In fact, if you rerun the installation with the same media on the > >>>same machine, you're likely to run into a different error, or no error > >>>at all. And, of course, others of us have installed from these same > >>>images without incident. > >>> > >>>It would be extremely helpful to know if the problem occurs with the > >>>stock Fedora disks (or not). I am not aware that there has been much > >>>testing of > >>>text mode installation in Fedora. Most users installing interactively > >>>are using the graphical installer. Most others are doing "kick start" > >>>scripted installs. > >>> > >>>Janina > >>> > >>>Jude DaShiell writes: > >>>>these happened on both an old Dell machine circa 1999 a dimension dsx I > >>>>think and a new amd athelon-64 computer. The same error hit both > >>>>machines > >>>>on the same file and does so on different files when install office > >>>>productivity is unchecked. Then it happens on vim-enhanced. What it is > >>>>is a claim that a disk is corrupt and a request to insert disk -99 on a > >>>>retry. Fedora didn't make that many disks. Also, the media check was > >>>>run > >>>>on every disk I downloaded with some very aggressive integrity checking > >>>>options in rsync from that site. wget -b FC-6-*.iso did not download > >>>>any > >>>>changes or additions either. I am not unique in having this problem but > >>>>may be unique in terms of the quantity and diversity of machines this > >>>>error happens on consistently. The amd athelon-64 emulates 32-bit > >>>>operations well enough to run windows xp when I have the windows xp disk > >>>>inserted. Given operating system conflicts I've opted for the use of > >>>>drive sleds to prevent anymore fighting. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>Blinux-list mailing list > >>>>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >>> > >>>-- > >>> > >>>Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 > >>>Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > >>> > >>>Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and > >>>Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. > >>> > >>>Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > >>>janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Blinux-list mailing list > >>>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Blinux-list mailing list > >>Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > >-- > > > >Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 > >Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > > > >Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and > >Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. > > > >Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > >janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list mailing list > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.595.7777 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. 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