vinux questions

[Jude DaShiell]

Were I you, I'd try testing and find out what happens.

On Fri, 20 May 2016, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 18:01:51
> 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 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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