Too bad. Bill has even been known to call people back on his dime, if they can't afford the call. But, I suspect you'd have to ask nice. So, to spite a 30 second fix you went and did a 30 minute install? Your choice. Enjoy. Janina Janina Daniel C writes: > The entire document I find outdated. And while I found that number for phone > support, I cannot call that number as I have no long distance and no money > to get a phone card, so that's why I skipped that part. > In order for me to minimize my already 10 hour or so downtime of my server, > I've reinstalled FC7 for now until I can get some help that isn't phone > related. Not to say that if I did have long distance that I wouldn't call, > but because I have none, that's not an option. > I already have customers e-mailing like mad about the downtime. I thought > that I could just pop in the DVD and tell it to upgrade, and just maybe, be > left with maybe configuring a few services here and there, but it turns out > that what I've run into is an unaccessible Fedora without Speakup at the > boot stage. > Does anyone else have the same trouble as me about not having Speakup come > up after a reboot? > To make things easier, here is what I did, to be sure I am, "following > instructions": > > Install Process > > 1. I inserted the DVD and booted the system. > 2. After the DVD stopped, I hit down arrow once, followed by tab once then > space once. > 3. After doing tab once then pressing space once, I wrote speakup.synth=bns > and hit enter. > My Braille 'N Speak 2000 was found and speakup began talking. > 4. It asked about a language and keyboard, etc. I went through all of the > install options I needed and chose a root password. > At the last stage, after package installation and the congradulations > screen, I pressed alt+f2 and back-spaced and realized I was In a console > because I back-spaced once and the machine made a beeping sound once. > Next, I typed cd /mnt/sysimage and hit enter. > Next, I typed chroot put a space and put a period then hit enter. > Finally, I typed slash sbin slash chkconfig firstboot off then pressed > enter. > Lastly, I hit CTRL+d, then alt+delete and the machine rebooted. > Somehow I was able to login to a console without doing anything, but then > during the boot process speakup never loaded. > Where did I go wrong in the above information? > I'll attempt a reupgrade, only if I have information that will actually work > properly in FC9. Otherwise, I've spent from 6:00 A.M. til 6:00 P.M. > installing an OS that just won't work for me. > Thanks. > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1446 - Release Date: 5/16/2008 > 7:42 AM > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina at a11y.org Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina at a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org
