Three things:
1. There is very little reason to use Ubuntu Server. It is really a
holdover from back when you needed a special kernel for servers because
of things like memory allocation and drivers. These days, the Linux has
dynamic memory allocation and module loading. So Ubuntu no longer
creates separate kernels for servers and desktops. Installing Ubuntu
server can save a small amount of disk space and set you up with a
character interface. If you care about those things, I would recommend
using Debian instead.
2. One way to do an eyes-free install of Ubuntu Server is to use their
auto-installer. You can configure a text file that answers all the
installation questions. It is non-trivial to do this but once you have
it, you can use it over and over. If you are setting up a Ubuntu server
farm, this is what you want.
3. Another way I have installed Ubuntu Server in a virtual machine was
to take screen shots, run them through an OCR program, and then answered
the questions one by one. The Ubuntu Server installation doesn't have a
huge number of questions, usually you can just take the default. This is
not going to be easy but it can be done. For the OCR program, I would
recommend gocr. It seems to work way better than tesseract on screen caps.
PS: Back when I first started using Linux, you had to compile your own
kernel. That was just part of the normal installation process. You had
to configure how many file handles you wanted and how many simultaneous
users you would allow. You had to specify all the drivers you wanted and
if you left one out, your machine might not boot.
On 12/11/22 17:45, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
Hey Group,
I thought I'd test out Ubuntu server in a VM, using VmWare.
The first problem I noticed is that there is no way to call up speakup
because it is configuring a few things, like disk space to use and user
group and an account.
When I have installed Windows, I didn't have trouble with this because
VmWare took the information from the running windows system.
Actually, I'm not sure how one would install Ubuntu-server non-visually
outside a hypervisor.
I was using:
Ubuntu22.04 64 lite server
I might be able to get through the VmWare installer, I thought I had it
using the Be My Eyes app, but I couldn't tell if I was at a prompt, and
speaker-test produced nothing, and the soundcard was checked for the VM.
I also have Ubuntu Mate on the same computer in a VM, and sometimes I have
to enable the soundcard again to get Orca talking, but that didn't happen
here.
Just hoping someone has installed Ubuntu-server and gotten speakup to work
on first boot.
Glenn
