At various times I have used a boot cdrom I have customized, a USB key that I have customized, and in the good old days, a boot floppy! Probably the easiest way is to use a usb key to do it. Then add a ks.cfg to it and that should get you going. Another interesting way to do it is to take a good installed image and dump it onto the drive of the system you want to install and customize it. Most of this does require some extra effort, but it yields 2 things: 1: satisfaction 2: lots of extra knowledge about how the internals of centOS or any distribution works. Now, some people neither need or want this, but this is what I like to do. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:18 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: What do you use for a "kick start disk"? Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.> -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 2010 February 10 9:15 AM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: I still use CentOS, but I just use the stock distribution. I use ssh to administer it. To install, I write a kickstart disk that makes all the important install choices for me. Once it is up and running, ssh from my speakup equipt desktop does the trick. I have built and administered hundreds of servers this way. Everything from mail servers to phone systems to web servers and clustered virtual servers. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:38 AM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: What would you suggest for a server? Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.> Management Systems Analyst Information Technology #8480 | Phone: (403) 268-5527 The City of Calgary | Fax: (403) 268-6423 PO Box 2100 Postal Station M. | Email: Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca Calgary, Alberta, Canada. T2P 2M5 | Web: http://www.calgary.ca -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 2010 February 09 4:57 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: Yes, but for a regular machine I could not tell a difference. I would not run a server like that, but for my personal machine which I use to access server machines, I think it is just fine. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:10 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: Kelly, In creating a custom kernel, did you loose out on the customizations that are in the centos kernel by default? Stephen Dawes <B.A., B.Sc.> -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 2010 February 09 1:14 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Speak supported Distributions: Steven, I just compile a custom kernel from scratch, and then lock the kernel rpm so it can't be updated. You can't patch the centos kernel as there are a lot of mods to it, but they have not impacted my operation any. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Dawes, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:34 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: Speak supported Distributions: Does anyone have any experience using speak with centos? If not, what is involved in adding speakup into the centos kernel? I know that centos is the open source version of RedHat enterprise Linux, so I thought there may be someone who has done this on the list. I am interested in going to centos because I am finding it hard, with time constraints, to keep up with the latest version(s) of fedora. Thoughts and opinions welcome. Stephen Dawes NOTICE - This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. 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