Yes, all of that is possible with the installation disk in the machine once you boot gentoo so it talks in the first place. Your problem is likely to be building your kernel and adding the accessibility software into it when you build that kernel so when installation is finished you end up with a talking system. Expect gentoo linux installation to be like archlinux installation with lots of steps to go through running scripts. If you've already done an archlinux installation this won't be a problem but when I made braille notes for talkingarch I had about 3 pages and my gentoo notes ran something like 7 pages and they weren't finished after that since I couldn't get speakup added to the kernel and so stopped making notes at that point. The old fedora installation like Moonshine had about 7 pages of brailled notes too but that one was successful. On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:14:48 > From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Making Gentoo talk out-of-the-box > > Hi, > > I'm considering a Gentoo Linux installation, but I need it to talk "out of the box" for the compiling and installation. > > Is there a way to make it speak so I can make sense of the compile and instill process? I'm code-stupid, but wanting to learn. > > --M > > _______________________________________________ > 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