Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

Fri Jun 30 16:35:26 UTC 2017

Now no longer an issue.  I found the 
Fedora-Workstation-25-x86-64.iso.torrent and got it with lftp last 
night, so will try what appears to be the working version next.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 23:14:39
> 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
> 
> 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
>>>> 
>>>> Linux Foundation Fellow
>>>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org
>>>> 
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