Installing Fedora and other Linux systems

Fri Jun 30 18:19:42 UTC 2017

I tried it, and the only problem was boot order related. Now I'm rocking
fedora 25, with Emacspeak, Emacs, Youtube-DL, Audacious, Voxin, and all
that installed now. It's amazing how quickly it is to get a good Linux
system up and running. Just type · or say in the future perhaps? A
command, and the package is downloaded and installed silently, or at
least, without needing to answer any other questions other than "yes,
these packages being installed is okay."
-- 
Devin Prater
      assistive Technology Instructor in training
      World services for the blind

Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> writes:

> 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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>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200
>>>>> sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
>>>>> Email: janina at rednote.net
>>>>>
>>>>> Linux Foundation Fellow
>>>>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org
>>>>>
>>>>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
>>>>> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>>>>>
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