By "screen that wanted the mount point" do you mean the partitioning part of the installation? It's probably the trickiest part of the installation especially for someone unfamiliar with linux and linux terminology. Unfortunately, the Redhat partitioning tool, diskdruid, is not as speech friendly as it probably should be, thus compounding the dificulty for a new user. On the positive side, if you're happy letting the installation program make decisions for you (we might call this the Microsoft approach), you can select "automatic" and things will be done as the routines determine. If, however, you want to make your own partitioning decisions, you will need to indicate at least the "slash" mount point -- / -- in order to proceed. You are strongly advised to spend some time becoming familiar with partitioning. The Redhat installation guide is very good on this--and it includes advice on keystrokes, not just mouse clicks. Essentially, there are two parts to the diskdruid main screen. From the speech users perspective, these are reached sequentially by tab/alt-tab. Actually, these two parts consist of a list of existing partitions as defined so far, and a sequence of action buttons one can select by pressing enter as one tabs around. These buttons have names like "new," "edit," "delete," etc. When you're on these buttons, all you can do is press enter to initiate that particular activity, or tab to the next, or alt-tab to the previous button. Pressing enter brings up a new screen--a subsidiary screen--which guides one through the action. More about that in a moment. So, how do you know when you've tab'd to the list of defined partitions? Speakup won't say anything in particular to tell you you've reached that list. Instead, here's how you can know. As you tab, you eventually come to a button that says "back." When you hear "back" for the first time, tab once more. You'll hear speakup say "back" again. You are now on the list and can use down arrow (you'll always start at the top of the list) and then up arrow to move u through this list. Be careful to use speakup's "read current line" key, the number 8 key on the numeric keypad, to ascertain that you're actually on the partition you mean to be on before editing or deleting it. Now for a brief word on the subsidiary screens. Some are quite simple, others are not. The edit screen, for example, will first give an edit field where the mount point for this partition is to be specified. This is where you type '/', or '/usr', or '/home', my personal list of the three critical partitions to specify separately--but that's yet another story. The thing to know is that you use tab and alt-tab in these screens to work your way through the various options. Use the screen review features of speakup often to understand what's happening. The #8 key is your friend. And, if you explore with other keys, remember that the enter key on the numeric keypad will return the speakup cursor to the real cursor--the place you actually are in this form. Check boxes, by the way, are selected and unselected using the spacebar. You'll know you're on a check box because you'll hear [*] when that checkbox is selected, and [ ] when it isn't. Hope this helps. On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Keith H. wrote: > Thanks again for the tips on rawrite. I think I have finally got the files > to transfer to a floppy. > > It doesn't seem to boot up with speech though. I get to a welcome to RedHat > screen and when you hit enter to continue, the program stops and I'm back at > a DOS prompt. I reacquired the dtlkb.bin and updat.img from the SpeakUp > site. I haven't had time to do the transfer of the boot images yet. My mom > spent the weekend at the hospital, and is still there. > > One thing I noticed, after I resorted to using the boot flopy that came with > RedHat, everything seemed fine until I got to the screen that wanted a mount > point. I think there is some reference in Appendix G of the Install Manual. > Which I will read eventually. In a real quick nutshell, can anyone shine > any light on that or what is needed on that field? > > from > Keith H. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
