actually, thats one part of the install i disagree with (but its personal preference so it doesn't much matter). I find Grub on the whole to be a better boot loader than Lilo. You can do a lot more with it, e.g booting kernels from anywhere off your hard drive, searching the filesystem, etc, as well as all the things that Lilo does. I selected grub when i did the install, I was prompted for any kernel options i wanted (that's where I put in my speakup synth option), and after I did the kernel install and rebooted, things came up talking nicely (which was what I expected). If it was me, I'd be recommending users use grub, unless they wantt a talking boot prompt through making lilo use the serial port as a console (not sure if grub can do that or how). Regards Aaron On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:40:30PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ / |\ _,,,---,,_ /| / /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ / | / |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' / | / '---''(_/--' `-'\_) / | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | | Aaron Howell Kitten Internet | | | aaron at kitten.net.au Internet consultancy, | | | Phone: +61-417-625550 System administration, | | | fax: +61-7-36010099 system design/integration. | | | icq: 6715521 http://www.kitten.net.au | | | | | | | + | | / | | / | | / | |/ +----------------------------------------------------------+
