Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

Sat Jul 1 04:51:36 UTC 2017

What I did not know and discovered was that the Fedora Configuration 
Screen where you enter root and user information is a special screen 
needing special handling.  Once all of that information is entered it's 
best to go into flat review mode and camp out on that screen for most of 
an hour.  What to search for are two completion percentages near the 
bottom of that screen.  The top one is task completion percentage and 
the bottom is installation completion percentage.  The installation 
completion percentage will hang on 40% while software is being installed 
but then increase as other parts of the system get installed and 
configured.  A little while after that bottom percentage hits 100 and 
then the screen goes blank for a couple seconds you're left with a help 
button and a quit button and that quit button you hit enter or space on 
to move on to a window with about five icons in it and activities and a 
time stamp written in it.  Then it's time to remove the dvd and reboot. 
I did need to hit control-super-s and then got to login and logged in 
and connected my network.  I entered my gmail email address but probably 
missed the password field that was on that screen so didn't configure 
those accounts.  I did all of this on the i386 version and when we get 
the bad weather out of here maybe Sunday I'll try testing other versions 
and see if I can duplicate any of my success here on them.  Useful now I 
have an idea what to expect and why.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:41:15
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Installing Fedora and other Linux systems
> 
> Helllo sense fedora isn;t workable what is vinux going to use? last I heard 
> vinux was going to use fedora.
>
> thanks
>
> Hank
>
>
>
> On 6/29/2017 8:14 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Should I be looking for an Everything fedora torrent?  I found some of 
>> those and didn't know what to make of them.
>> 
>> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:03:05
>>> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Installing Fedora and other Linux systems
>>> 
>>> Well, if you're getting confused by the Talking Arch install, I would
>>> recommend you stay away from Fedora for now.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Talking Arch is designed to be blind friendly. Fedora is not. So, save
>>> Fedora for another day--for a day when you know more about Linux and how
>>> to work with it.
>>> 
>>> Just my advice, which you're free to do with as you will, of course.
>>> 
>>> Janina
>>> 
>>> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
>>>> I use the Talking arch iso. I've tried installing it, but I always get 
>>>> stuck on one part or another, like setting the clock, partitioning the 
>>>> drive, such like that. What I plan to do is dualboot Windows and Linux, 
>>>> so I can have Emacspeak and the Windows audio games and such as well. 
>>>> I'll also try installing Linux, probably Arch this time, using a flash 
>>>> drive which I am 100." sure that it'll work, as my old one didn't even 
>>>> work in Windows, so I think it's gone rather bad.
>>>> 
>>>> Devin Prater
>>>> 
>>>> Assistive Technology Instructor in training at World Services for the 
>>>> BLIND, JAWS certified
>>>> 
>>>> On Jun 29, 2017 9:21 AM, Linux for blind general discussion 
>>>> <blinux-list at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't understand why you have trouble installing Arch. Are you using
>>>>> the especially adapted talking arch iso image? If installing arch, this
>>>>> is the one you should be using.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://talkingarch.tk
>>>>> 
>>>>> Installing Fedora is actually more difficult. Particularly tricky is the
>>>>> stage of installation where you partition your drive--unless you're
>>>>> happy to take Fedora's defaults. Personally, I don't support that
>>>>> default simply because I find it wise to put /home on a separate
>>>>> partition--but maybe you wouldn't care. That's certainly up to you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> As to what may have gone wrong in your Fedora installation, you've not
>>>>> nearly enough info in your email. How do you know nothing went wrong in
>>>>> the install? What messages did you see?
>>>>> 
>>>>> And, how do you know it's not booting? What is it you expect that isn't
>>>>> happening? I'm presuming you're blind so aren't seeing screens. So, how
>>>>> do you know what you think you know?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not trying to be harsh. But your message really isn't explaining
>>>>> anything useful for debugging.
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS: It will also be easier to follow your explanation if you can manage
>>>>> to avoid run-on sentences.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Janina
>>>>> 
>>>>> Linux for blind general discussion writes:
>>>>>> Hi all. After using Windows for a month, after using Linux for two 
>>>>>> months, I've noticed that everything that I do on Windows, I could do 
>>>>>> on Windows, and with the Braille note Touch, I can get the Exchange 
>>>>>> emails from the training center I'm attending, which mainly uses 
>>>>>> Windows. So, while in Windows, I burned a USB drive with the latest 
>>>>>> Fedora image, using Rufus, making it bootable. So, The installation 
>>>>>> went well, but after the computer restarted, and the flash drive was 
>>>>>> taken out, no system came up. I've never seen that happen before, and 
>>>>>> Googling didn't give any answers, so I'm stuck between Vinux, and Arch. 
>>>>>> Vinux being okay I suppose, but out of date, and Arch being hard for me 
>>>>>> to install, without scripts although the ones I know of are broken, but 
>>>>>> Arch is what I like, because it has anything I ask of it. So I tried 
>>>>>> installing Fedora a few more times, formatting the drive, but no luck. 
>>>>>> Then I accidentally pulled the flash drive out of the USB drive for a 
>>>>>> moment, and wh
>> en I pus
>> hed
>>>>>   i
>>>>>>   t back in, I couldq't load Orca when first starting up the installer, 
>>>>>> so the data on that drive is probably corrupted. So, any ideas? Should 
>>>>>> I just go with Vinux and deal with it? The last time I tried the 
>>>>>> instructions for installing Arch, I got stuck on setting the clock and 
>>>>>> such, because the results I got were not the results on the ge, so I'm 
>>>>>> just not sure what to do.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Devin Prater
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Assistive Technology Instructor in training at World Services for the 
>>>>>> BLIND, JAWS certified
>>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
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>>>>> sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
>>>>> Email: janina at rednote.net
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
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