Jim: I've never installed from the DOS batch file, but can't imagine it's all that different from a floppy disk (ior CDR) boot. When booting from floppy or CDR, one needs to wait for the drive to pause. A 10 second pause is built into the installer--not enough maybe--but that's the default. This is when people are supposed to indicate they want text, and it's when they're supposed to indicate the appropriate speech synthesizer speakup will use. Since you put the speech synthesizer into your batch file, maybe you should put the word 'text' at the beginning of the line that contains your synth--something like this for a litetalk: text speakup_synth=ltlk The point is it should come up talking after a little time. It should talk a lot. It should tell you far more than you want to know about your processor, your memory, your pci, your hard disk, etc., etc. Then after a lot of this chatter it gets around to installation options. If this isn't happening, why not create a boot floppy and start the installl that way? On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Jim Ruby wrote: > The problem is I get no menus though. the last thing I hear is > starting anaconda please wait: > My understand is that anaconda is the graphical install. I looked in the other concels with ctrl-alt-f1-f7 and I see it is starting xserver or something like that in f1 and f2 or f3 I can crews around in a shell and the rest > has info, but ttyf7 where the menu should be just is showing blank. > > Is there a way to force it to use the text install? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp
