While you could do that, using the console=ttyS0 option is easier, and will get you speech output as soon as the kernel loads, since that is a kernel specific, and not a distro specific option. Greg On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:34:52PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Alex, > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Alex Snow wrote: > > > so you would just plug in your terminal and boot the machine? > > Yes. As I recall it, there were a couple of fairly detailed > things you had to do without speech on the system you were > installing to. You had to bring up the installation as far as the > first root prompt of the ramdisk system, then you had to edit the > inittab file to change the line that refers to your serial > terminal, and then type "init q" to restart inittab, and if you > did everything right, you got speech and then used the second > computer from then on. > > I recall getting all the way through a successful installation > one time and when it said "You may now reboot by pressing > "control, alt, delete" I pressed that key combination on my > second machine instead of the Linux box. Talk about dumb! > > Chuck > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (53% of Full) > In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. > My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iQCVAwUBQAXSRDVdG8M9x9tGAQJAHAQAz23D9D9qdADk7APQ92J+m1rX4czUJ9di > kDKXtGhz93yPQdSQG+znQcKpZ0ezboAn3qtM9NQx+uD+Qfw3SEv5KNjne7OKebDA > 0cnCE++8sRqf4tOixX/MXPwPVJOWM2nhoKiptumV91eNwahZKMo99M/Bgt6bh4zf > rSIqhtEScH8= > =3R/o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org
