hI, aRON: yES, YOU MOST CERTAINLY DO WHAT YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT. dOWNLOAD THE APPROPRIATE FLOPPY IMAGE FROM THE sPEAKUP WEB SITE. tHIS WILL GIVE YOU A SPEAKING INSTALLATION. gO AHEAD AND USE YOUR STOCK rED hAT 7.3 cd romS TO INSTALL vALHALLA. tHE INSTALLATION WILL TALK, BUT YOU WILL NOT HAVE SPEECH WHEN YOU BOOT YOUR INSTALLED SYSTEM, BECAUSE THE STOCK rED hAT cd romS DON'T INCLUDE THE KERNEL PATCHED WITH sPEAKUP. sO, YOU SHOULD ALSO OBTAIN THE APPROPRIATE KERNEL RPM, PROBABLY IN ADVANCE. oNCE YOU'VE INSTALLED FROM THE STOCK rED hAT DISCS, GO AHEAD AND BOOT AND LOGIN AS ROOT. THEN INSTALL YOUR sPEAKUP mODIFIED KERNEL AS USUAL WITH RPM AND REBOOT. yOU MAY ALSO NEED TO EDIT YOUR LILO.CONF BY HAND. On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Aaron Howell wrote: > Hi there, > I'm about to install RedHat for the first time with speech. > I've done multiple RedHat installs in the past with sighted assistance, so am pretty confident I'll be able to do the install ok. > I do have a question though, and that is, > If i already have standard RedHat 7.3 distribution cds, > Which (if any) of the modified cds do I need to complete the installation? > I ask because at work we're required to account for the bandwidth we use, so I'd prefer not to have to pull all 3 iso images if it turns out only disk 1, or 2, or something, is different to the standard RedHat install. > Or, alternatively, can i get away with using the standard RedHat cds, boot my system with the talking install disk, > then get the speakup modified kernel? > Any help you could provide would be much appreciated. > Other than the above question I think I'm ok at this stage. > Regards > Aaron > > -- 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
