Installation attempt doesn't resembledocumentedprocedure...HELP PLEASE.

[hank]

is that what that flashing bar swap thingy is on the screen?
my mom was telling me the thing flashes and sits here
thanks
hank
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Mattioli" <jmattioli at kurzweiledu.com>
To: "'Linux for blind general discussion'" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:14 AM
Subject: RE: Installation attempt doesn't resembledocumentedprocedure...HELP
PLEASE.


> Lee, Janina and others:
>
> Lee wrote:
> Do you remember where the HowTo came from?
>
> Yes, it came from a pointer on the linux-speakup home page.
>
> Lee wrote:
> Perhaps if it's anything Janina has control over she can get rid
> of the obsolete one.
>
> Apparently it is something she has control over and she has
> already changed the URL.  Seems she updated the web site on Sunday.
> Thanks for that update Janina.
>
> Lee wrote:
> If the entire Fedora distribution came from pointers in that old
> HowTo, though, it should be internally consistent so presumably isn't
> the cause of the swap partition hang(???)
>
> I downloaded the yarrow images from the speakup site so I agree
> with you that it shouldn't have mattered.  I also have already reread
> the howto.  The images on the web site have changed ... They're now
> dated 5/17/2004 which is obviously later than any images I could have
> downloaded last week.  So I'm in the process of downloading again and
> I'll reburn and retest.  Seems that without creating the initrd I failed
> to include speakup in my *real* bootable system.  That's annoying, but
> not catastrophic.  I verified the hang where linux attempted to enable
> the swap space using the optacon.  I wonder if firstboot is attempting
> to do something graphical but it isn't happening due to something weird
> with my video card.  I don't think this is the case because I tried
> switching consoles and that seemed to do something though all I could
> see on the screen was a blinking cursor and I couldn't get a login
> prompt.  That behavior seems to differ from the description of how bad
> life will be if firstboot runs that's in the installation hoto which
> reads, "Unfortunately, FirstBoot launches before any consoles launch, so
> there is absolutely nothing you can do as a blind user once FirstBoot is
> running either to work with FirstBoot or to get out of it."
>
> Lee wrote:
> Note also that the first IDE hard disk is HDA; I assume HAD was
> just a typo.
>
> Hmm, it wasn't a typo, it was an outlooko (if that's the proper
> term for what happens when you type hda and Microsoft, thinking they
> know best, decides you made a typo so they rearrange the letters to had
> (which is a real word even if it isn't a valid unix device <grin>.
>
> Janina wrote:
> You really should take Bill Acker up on his offer of tech
> support by telephone--just like the HOWTO says. Let's get you working.
>
> Perhaps I will, but I'd like to make at least one more attempt
> to get this right before bugging the guy.  If the errors are mine, due
> to reading wrong documents or something I can fix easily on my own, I'd
> rather save the tech support for when I have real problems.  For
> instance, I noticed the installaiton howto not only doesn't talk about
> how to get gnopernicus working, but doesn't point one in a direction
> where such information is available.  If I can't find such information,
> I'll be bugging people for help again <grin>.
>
> John
>
>
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