Re: talking terminals

[philwh@gate.net]

It should work over a modem.
I just plugged the serial terminal into com1, fired it up and loaded commo and jaws for dos.
I put the floppy into the drive, and puthe cdrom into its drive,
and booted the computer. at the boot prompt,
which i detected by listening for floppy drive noise, i typed the command
i mentioned below.
The only thing I could see wrong with a modem installation, is knowing when
to type the command.
phil
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:08:21PM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> Would it do the same over modem? Did you put the CD in the machine to
> install on, or do you have to upload it off the machine you use as a
> terminal? What if I do it, substituting the port my modem uses? At 09:11 PM
> 8/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I must say you are completely incorrect. I have installed linux
> >using a serial terminal dozens of times since 1994 when I started
> >with linux.
> >I have installed both slackware and redhat using a serial
> >terminal, the most recent last
> >friday afternoon when I installed
> >redhat 6.2 on my computer at work without any sighted help whatsoever.
> >just for anyone who wishes to know how,
> >at the boot prompt after booting the installation floppy from redhat,
> >type the following command to install using a 
> >serial terminal, or more acurately a serial console:
> >text console=ttyS0,9600n8
> >or in my case since i was impatient,
> >text console=ttyS0,115200n8
> >
> >it worked without a problem.
> >
> >phil
> >
> >On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:56:03AM -0700, cbrannon1979@earthlink.net wrote:
> >> I was reading all the discussion about talking terminals yesterday.  The
> >> way I see it, they have a very big disadvantage to a screenreader for a
> >> blind person with a hardware synthesizer.  You need sighted help to install
> >> Linux with a talking terminal.  And IMNSHO, a sighted person reading a
> screen
> >> for me is a very poor substitute for speech output, especially if you're
> >> like me, and don't
> >> know anyone in your area who uses Linux.  I installed Zipspeak with
> absolutely
> >> zero sighted assistance.  And as far as I can tell, kernels built with
> >> Speakup can do this for full distributions, as well.  This would make
> >> Linux the only operating system that can be installed by someone who is
> blind
> >> without sighted help.  Maybe I could install DOS on my own, if I'd done it
> >> enough, but I wouldn't have the computer actually talking to me while I was
> >> installing.  And, with Speakup you get speech from bootup to power
> >> down.  Only thing that
> >> won't talk to you now is the BIOS, and there's supposedly a board you
> can get
> >> that'll send the BIOS messages out the serial port.    Compare this
> setup to
> >> Win-95, where speech isn't necessarily constant, even if you're booted
> and the 
> >> screenreader's active.  (JFW crashes so easy its sick.)
> >> But getting back to the topic of talking terminals. Anyone remember the
> >> old Apple II computer from the seventies?  That's what I started out
> >> on; and I seem to remember that the synthesizer for those was only about
> >> $150, or so.  Question is, if a blind person doesn't have a hardware
> >> synth, would it be possible to use an Apple II as a terminal under
> >> Linux?  You can still find them, once in a while, and like I said, the
> >> synth was cheap, even new.  I seem to remember them having a serial port,
> >> so I'd think they could be usable as talking terminals, for someone with
> >> limited funds who doesn't have, and can't afford a hardware synthesizer.
> >> Later.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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