FC-6 speakup install failures

Sat Feb 3 18:13:33 UTC 2007

We'd be quite happy to consider publishing kickstart scripts at the
Speakup Modified. I believe you're aware that the successful Fedora
installation actually leaves such a script be hind as a little gift for
your next installation effort. Certainly something to consider.

Jude DaShiell writes:
> hmmm,
> 
> I'm sure the packages themselves are perfectly good else why would the 
> media check pass?  I suspect you well could be correct in suspecting the 
> fedora text mode installation.  I've seen examples of kickstart scripts 
> before and can read them and describe what's being done.  Perhaps it might 
> be useful to put one of these together and release it to the speakup 
> community if I can get it to work along with configuration instructions 
> for variables others may need to change.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> >Both the SpeakupModified Fedora, and the stock Fedora are available in a
> >DVD iso image.
> >
> >I believe Dave Mielke provides a boot.iso image which contains brltty
> >support so that you can install using braille. That image would
> >undoubtedly serve only the default Fedora iso images, however it will
> >get you going. The only cost is that you'll have a major updating with
> >yum--but that's certainly not the end of the world.
> >
> >Once your Fedora is installed and updated, you can retrieve the
> >SpeakupModified kernels and configure software speech. This approach
> >should indeed work.
> >
> >Janina
> >
> >Kristoffer Gustafsson writes:
> >>Hello!
> >>When using the speakup install of fedora 6 can I use the braillefied
> >>installer to install?
> >>I have no hardware speech, but I want to use the cepstral voice I have 
> >>with
> >>speech dispatcher.
> >>
> >>Also, is there a dvd image available for the speakup modified fc6?
> >>/Kristoffer
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> >>To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> >>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:17 AM
> >>Subject: Re: FC-6 speakup install failures
> >>
> >>
> >>>These errors are not actual fact. What I mean is that you can, and we
> >>>have, determined that the packages which appear to cause the failure are
> >>>actually present and pass their checksums. So, something else is going
> >>>on. In fact, if you rerun the installation with the same media on the
> >>>same machine, you're likely to run into a different error, or no error
> >>>at all. And, of course, others of us have installed from these same
> >>>images without incident.
> >>>
> >>>It would be extremely helpful to know if the problem occurs with the
> >>>stock Fedora disks (or not). I am not aware that there has been much
> >>>testing of
> >>>text mode installation in Fedora. Most users installing interactively
> >>>are using the graphical installer. Most others are doing "kick start"
> >>>scripted installs.
> >>>
> >>>Janina
> >>>
> >>>Jude DaShiell writes:
> >>>>these happened on both an old Dell machine circa 1999 a dimension dsx I
> >>>>think and a new amd athelon-64 computer.  The same error hit both
> >>>>machines
> >>>>on the same file and does so on different files when install office
> >>>>productivity is unchecked.  Then it happens on vim-enhanced.  What it is
> >>>>is a claim that a disk is corrupt and a request to insert disk -99 on a
> >>>>retry.  Fedora didn't make that many disks.  Also, the media check was
> >>>>run
> >>>>on every disk I downloaded with some very aggressive integrity checking
> >>>>options in rsync from that site.  wget -b FC-6-*.iso did not download 
> >>>>any
> >>>>changes or additions either.  I am not unique in having this problem but
> >>>>may be unique in terms of the quantity and diversity of machines this
> >>>>error happens on consistently.  The amd athelon-64 emulates 32-bit
> >>>>operations well enough to run windows xp when I have the windows xp disk
> >>>>inserted.  Given operating system conflicts I've opted for the use of
> >>>>drive sleds to prevent anymore fighting.
> >>>>
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