Gentoo experience
Mike Gorse
mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org
Tue Jan 25 19:51:20 UTC 2005
Hi Jason,
Are you installing from the LiveCD, or do you have another distribution on
your drive that you're using to bootstrap it? I used the latter approach,
partly because I didn't know if I could get the LiveCD to talk and partly
because I already had another distro installed and didn't want to be
without my computer while it was building things (although doing a stage 3
install would probably get you up and running a lot quicker). Apparently
the LiveCD has Speakup installed, though (I didn't know that when I did
the install and haven't ever used it, so I can't comment any more than
that).
I just looked at the genkernel x86 config, and it includes Speakup if you
build a 2.6 kernel with the synthesizers being loaded as modules. I'm
assuming that this means that it wouldn't read boot messages, so you might
want to modify the config or build a kernel manually once you got it
installed.
And, yeah, it is handy to have the install guide available while you're
installing; I'd suggest either getting it or a quick reference brailled if
you can or keeping it open in another window/console.
Sorry for the non-answer, but let me know if there is anything I can do to
help.
-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jason Castonguay wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I am looking into installing Gentoo Linux. I have begun reading the
> installation handbook available within their documentation and it sounds
> fascinating. One problem I have, however, is that there seem to be so
> many steps. Although I have no problem following directions, I thought
> the installation process would be something one could memorize. Perhaps
> I need to keep a quick reference on hand during installation? It does
> appear, however, that once installed, a person would probably not have
> to go through that again since they can use the `emerge' utility to keep
> their system updated.
>
> So, I just want to hear some thoughts or ideas from others who may have
> tried this distribution. Was speakup easy to get going during
> installation? What about brltty?
>
> Thanks for any and all feedback.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> --
> Jason Castonguay
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