New to linux and need guidance with redhat 9 installation

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, you get speech when you reboot after installing. The runlevel is not automatically modified, however my HOWTO describes how (and why) this modification can be made before rebooting--and after.

Your point about the left Alt is well taken, and I will modify my HOWTO to explain this. Thank you for pointing this out.


Lee Maschmeyer writes:
> Janina wrote:
> 
> >is there some reason anyone has to install with sighted assistance
> >instead of with Speakup's assistance?  I should think that,
> >if one wants speech as the final result, one would also want speech
> >during the install.
> 
> I use neither speech nor Speakup, so I'm not familiar with it. Do the
> Speakup disks give you speech after you reboot? Do they modify the runlevel?
> I hadn't heard that they do, but not having experienced it I have no way of
> knowing.
> 
> One thing that should perhaps be mentioned more often than it is: When
> people say Press Alt+F1 (or is it Alt+Control+F1) to get to a text login, it
> means press the LEFT Alt key. The right one, which used to be Alt, is now
> AltGr (however that's pronounced). When I was getting started I kept using
> the right Alt and then swore up and down the keystroke didn't work. This is
> probably well-known to those not using US English, though again I have no
> personal experience.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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