-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 09:26:23AM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Aside from that, are there any known options for serial communication which have been tried out and work? If so, what, and if not, what else can I try? Well, if you still want to use a physical machine, you have a few options open to you, none of which require a serial port. You can install gentoo via ssh, or fedora via telnet, and setup software speech afterwords. You can install debian via debootstrap, but this has room for error, even if you use grml's grml-debootstrap. The install in this case should go ok, and you can even install software speech after installing the base system, but if software speech doesn't work after you boot into your new install, if the log files don't shed light on the problem, and if you don't have a sightling to read the screen to you, so you can figure out where things are going wrong, you're pretty much screwed. I guess you're also screwed if you want to install slackware, unless there's a way to do it without a serial port/hardware synth that I don't know about. If you have access to another machine with a serial port, then if you want to install debian, slackware, or any other speakup-patched distro for that matter, you could install on the second box, and then either image the installed system, and move it over to the first system without a serial port, or just take out the hd from the first system, dump it into the second, install your distro, and then move it back into the first box. This could also work with a vm, (I.E. install on the vm with a serial port, setup software speech so it works in the vm, image the installed system, restore the image to the physical partition(s), and boot into your new system on the physical box). Hth. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGq4JM7s9z/XlyUyARAmDlAJ9Mgkf0YGBAXlF3CkuTCFBe69Q+zACfWSHl EjARWfeLtK4/lRn37IbNepw= =mwKz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
