Re: Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

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What I did not know and discovered was that the Fedora Configuration Screen where you enter root and user information is a special screen needing special handling. Once all of that information is entered it's best to go into flat review mode and camp out on that screen for most of an hour. What to search for are two completion percentages near the bottom of that screen. The top one is task completion percentage and the bottom is installation completion percentage. The installation completion percentage will hang on 40% while software is being installed but then increase as other parts of the system get installed and configured. A little while after that bottom percentage hits 100 and then the screen goes blank for a couple seconds you're left with a help button and a quit button and that quit button you hit enter or space on to move on to a window with about five icons in it and activities and a time stamp written in it. Then it's time to remove the dvd and reboot. I did need to hit control-super-s and then got to login and logged in and connected my network. I entered my gmail email address but probably missed the password field that was on that screen so didn't configure those accounts. I did all of this on the i386 version and when we get the bad weather out of here maybe Sunday I'll try testing other versions and see if I can duplicate any of my success here on them. Useful now I have an idea what to expect and why.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:41:15
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

Helllo sense fedora isn;t workable what is vinux going to use? last I heard vinux was going to use fedora.

thanks

Hank



On 6/29/2017 8:14 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Should I be looking for an Everything fedora torrent? I found some of those and didn't know what to make of them.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:03:05
From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

Well, if you're getting confused by the Talking Arch install, I would
recommend you stay away from Fedora for now.


Talking Arch is designed to be blind friendly. Fedora is not. So, save
Fedora for another day--for a day when you know more about Linux and how
to work with it.

Just my advice, which you're free to do with as you will, of course.

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
I use the Talking arch iso. I've tried installing it, but I always get stuck on one part or another, like setting the clock, partitioning the drive, such like that. What I plan to do is dualboot Windows and Linux, so I can have Emacspeak and the Windows audio games and such as well. I'll also try installing Linux, probably Arch this time, using a flash drive which I am 100." sure that it'll work, as my old one didn't even work in Windows, so I think it's gone rather bad.

Devin Prater

Assistive Technology Instructor in training at World Services for the BLIND, JAWS certified

On Jun 29, 2017 9:21 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't understand why you have trouble installing Arch. Are you using
the especially adapted talking arch iso image? If installing arch, this
is the one you should be using.

https://talkingarch.tk

Installing Fedora is actually more difficult. Particularly tricky is the
stage of installation where you partition your drive--unless you're
happy to take Fedora's defaults. Personally, I don't support that
default simply because I find it wise to put /home on a separate
partition--but maybe you wouldn't care. That's certainly up to you.

As to what may have gone wrong in your Fedora installation, you've not
nearly enough info in your email. How do you know nothing went wrong in
the install? What messages did you see?

And, how do you know it's not booting? What is it you expect that isn't
happening? I'm presuming you're blind so aren't seeing screens. So, how
do you know what you think you know?

I'm not trying to be harsh. But your message really isn't explaining
anything useful for debugging.

PS: It will also be easier to follow your explanation if you can manage
to avoid run-on sentences.

Janina

Linux for blind general discussion writes:
Hi all. After using Windows for a month, after using Linux for two months, I've noticed that everything that I do on Windows, I could do on Windows, and with the Braille note Touch, I can get the Exchange emails from the training center I'm attending, which mainly uses Windows. So, while in Windows, I burned a USB drive with the latest Fedora image, using Rufus, making it bootable. So, The installation went well, but after the computer restarted, and the flash drive was taken out, no system came up. I've never seen that happen before, and Googling didn't give any answers, so I'm stuck between Vinux, and Arch. Vinux being okay I suppose, but out of date, and Arch being hard for me to install, without scripts although the ones I know of are broken, but Arch is what I like, because it has anything I ask of it. So I tried installing Fedora a few more times, formatting the drive, but no luck. Then I accidentally pulled the flash drive out of the USB drive for a moment, and wh
en I pus
hed
  i
t back in, I couldq't load Orca when first starting up the installer, so the data on that drive is probably corrupted. So, any ideas? Should I just go with Vinux and deal with it? The last time I tried the instructions for installing Arch, I got stuck on setting the clock and such, because the results I got were not the results on the ge, so I'm just not sure what to do.

Devin Prater

Assistive Technology Instructor in training at World Services for the BLIND, JAWS certified

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