vinux questions

Kristoffer Gustafsson kg.kristoffer at gmail.com
Thu May 19 22:01:51 UTC 2016


Hi.
I made another debian dvd. something was wrong with the other.
I've burned out an alpha version of testing. (the latest one)
Do you think that I'm stupid installing testing, or shall I install
anything else?
With the older kernels I think there is no good support for skylike processors.
/Kristoffer

2016-05-19 19:13 GMT+02:00, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>:
> On machines with fast hard drives used in drive sleds, it helps to have
> the hard drive pulled out a little to give the dvd a chance to start
> then push the hard drive home and lock it in the sled for installation.
> Other machines could have had their bios/cmos entries messed up in which
> case it needs sighted assistance to straighten that out since these are
> otherwise inaccessible.  Another possibility is a disk integrity check
> was not done on download using a web downloader like wget bittorrent
> download say with lftp avoids this problem since what gets on your
> machine gets checked for integrity as it is being downloaded.
>
> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:39:53
>> From: Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: vinux questions
>>
>> Hi.
>> I've got no other option than installing vinux anyway.
>> I don't know why, but the debian install dvd doesn't start.
>> strange? has any of you experienced this?
>> I have the testing version. I want to have all new packages.
>> /Kristoffer
>>
>>
>> 2016-05-19 15:15 GMT+02:00, Rob Harris <robh at apearl.net>:
>>> For a former user of many years absence, what is used to make speech in
>>> these distros? I had an external Apollo synth at that time, but not now,
>>> nor
>>>
>>> ports to connect it to.
>>>
>>> Many thanks, BobH.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at panix.com>
>>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 1:50 PM
>>> Subject: Re: vinux questions
>>>
>>>
>>> Language selection should have been done as part of the installation
>>> itself.  Vinux is a poor choice for text-based anything since it
>>> abandoned its text-based branch abck around version 3.x which was 2 or
>>> 3 years ago.  A better bet for text-based installations is the iso at
>>> http://talkingarch.tk/.  Although it talks, brltty comes on the iso so
>>> you can start that up in the usual way if braille is more effective than
>>> speech for you.  It may be possible to enable speech and braille, I
>>> don't know since I never had the funds to purchase my own braille
>>> display and use it with any of these Linux distros.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 08:19:38
>>>> From: Kristoffer Gustafsson <kg.kristoffer at gmail.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: vinux questions
>>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>> Finally I got the vinux live image working on my computer.
>>>> I've got some questions before I decide to use this or debian.
>>>> 1. can I select the language I want?
>>>> I'm using swedish.
>>>> 2. how do I do if I want to update packages?
>>>> In debian I'm using apt-get for this.
>>>> 3. can I compile new kernels, and install whatever I want just like in
>>>> debian?
>>>> 4. can I do a text based install of vinux with my braille display?
>>>> I like text based things more than graphical.
>>>> /Kristoffer
>>>>
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>>>> tel:033-12 60 93
>>>> mobil: 0730-500934
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