Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-accessibility] Installing gentoo (was gentoo installer and handbook)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:01:21
Message-Id: 20090221210118.GA3197@linux1
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4 Hi again James,
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6 I am moving this thread to gentoo-accessibility, so can we continue
7 discussion there?
8
9 On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:27:13PM -0500, James Homuth wrote:
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12 > -----Original Message-----
13 > From: William Hubbs [mailto:williamh@g.o]
14 > Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM
15 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
16 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re:
17 > Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
18 >
19 > Are you on the gentoo-accessibility mailing list? You might want to
20 > subscribe there. There are a couple of things that still need to happen
21 > (like getting espeakup and speakup to go stable) before we can get them put
22 > on the live cd, but that is being worked on.
23 >
24 > I am, yes. Though admittedly not for very long.
25 >
26 > For now, the last live cd with speakup on it was 2007.0, so you have to
27 > install from that cd.
28 >
29 > Can you run speakup etc with software speech off the 2007.0 CD?
30
31 No, software speech is not supported on that cd. You will need a
32 hardware synthesizer.
33
34 > For now, it is possible with the 2008.0 live cd to install over an ssh
35 > connection if you can get to the box that way.
36 >
37 > I was thinking of possibly doing that, too. Hopefully it'll play nice with
38 > the box's hardware (it's a 5-year-old HP laptop).
39
40 To make sshd start up automatically on the 2008.0 live cd, type
41 something like this at the boot prompt:
42
43 gentoo dosshd passwd=somepassword
44
45 That will start sshd. Also, I would suggest using the minimal cd so you
46 don't get an x environment.
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48 - ---
49 William Hubbs
50 gentoo accessibility team lead
51 williamh@g.o
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RE: [gentoo-accessibility] Installing gentoo (was gentoo installer and handbook) James Homuth <james@×××××××.com>