This is basically correct, but there are some gotchyas. I will not claim to know them all, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's very straight forward with a single disk. I used two disks, perhaps because there's now a disk of network drivers separate from the boot floppy, and I didn't take the time to figure out whether some net drivers were in the boot floppy. Of course, there's no speech when you boot the first floppy, so these gotchya's are important. At the first pause of disk spinning I typed: text dd telnet That says "I want a text installation," " I have a second driver disk I want to use," and "I want to install using telnet" You could, of course, put this in the syslinux.cfg file using any editor, even m$ notepad. The disk will spin for a long time. when it stoped, I put the second disk in. I press enter twice. The second disk spins for awhile, and here's the gotchya: tab once then press enter. Now, you can go to the second machine, discover the dhcp address of the machine on which you're installing Linux, and telnet to it. Thomas D. Ward writes: > From: "Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net> > > Hi. I'll try and break this down into as simple terms as possible. > > 1. we will assume your Linux system is on some sort of network weather it is > home based, or one at a company. > As such it should have a network card in it which is known to work with Red > Hat out of the box. I know of Linksys and Realtech cards which are vary good > for telnet style installs. > 2. You would insert the Red Hat cdrom and at the boot prompt you would tell > it something like: > linux text telnet > 3. Assuming your box can get a broadcast address, and the nic is compatible > you can go to another computer on the network, and bring up a telnet cliant, > and specify the address of the RH box. > If you are in Linux speakup, and the Linux telnet client works great. > However, if the other box has windows then I suggest using terraterm Pro and > something like Jaws or Window Eyes to read the setup prompts. > 4. If your telnet client connects ok to the box with RH installation, and > then it should come up on your screen, and you can use the remote box to > read the install prompts. > If you don' > If you don't have at least two computers on some sort of network and then > the telnet install won't work for you. Same is true if you connected two > computers via the serial ports. If you don't have two computers you won't be > able to do the install. > Then, your only options is to try a kickstart installation, or get sighted > help. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
