Alex Snow wrote: > I was able to install netbsd without sited assistence a while back, > and I believe there is a way to do this with freebsd. All I did was > use a serial console, with Minicom under linux. > Yes, I forgot to mention use of a serial console. I don't have one and thus have no experience with using it. I read here that it can be done that way but again I haven't tried because I don't have one. How much does it cost and how does it work? Do you just plug it into a serial port and get speech? They seem to be popular and one might be useful to have if it isn't expensive. Getting back to BSD installation, I can't comment on anything but FreeBSD but it uses a text installer so perhaps it would be possible to install via an emulator such as Bochs with a curses interface. NetBSD claims to run on anything including the Vax so I'm sure it has a text installer that could run in an emulator. If I try BSD again, I think I would go with NetBSD just because it seems to be more historical regarding older BSD software and does run on platforms which I've certainly never heard of, far more than Linux. Either way, there is no chance in the near future that Speakup will run on BSD because Speakup is a set of Linux kernel modules.
