red hat install lock up

red hat install lock up

[Jude DaShiell]

For the installation we selected everything and got the hard drive
partitioned with disk druid.  I got to put the parameter in for lilo and
eventually got asked to put the second cd in and hit ok.  No problem more
files were being installed.  Then I dozed off for a little bit and when I
woke up all was silent.  I used the keys to find out what was on the
screen and found the whole system had locked and control had gone away
from the keyboard.  I take it that this is the penguin's way of telling me
I neeed more installation practice.  Though next time when packages start
installing I'll disconnect the litetalk from the computer.  I found that
allows installation to go much faster.  My install also warns me it's time
to run e2fsck because check time has been reached but then goes on to do
the install.  I hope that's not why the linux installation won't come up
talking.  I think we're further ahead of the game though since we have the
disk partitioned and formatted provided we can skip that step.  The boot
disk I have loads speakup 0.9 on the system.  I'll get an update if one's
available and needed but before I try another installation of this system.
I did try bringing up linux on the hard drive with floppy and cd removed
and the speech synthesier was detected but the installation came up silent
this time too so I'll try this again tomorrow night.

Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>

Re: red hat install lock up

[Janina Sajka]

If you disconnect the system, you will surely not get speech if you do not 
reconnect it within about 15 seconds. That's just the way it is.

You will not crash linux by doing this--you will just lose speech.  Don't 
do it.

Instead, silence speech by pressing insert+enter -- that's the enter on 
the numeric keypad, not the enter key on the qwerty. Then use speakup's 
screen review feature to explore the screen and monitor the progress of 
the installation. My own preference at this point is to park the reading 
cursor on the spot which shows the number of packages remainint to be 
installed. Then, an occasional tap on the numeric keypad's 5 key lets me 
know how many there are to go,.
 On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> For the installation we selected everything and got the hard drive
> partitioned with disk druid.  I got to put the parameter in for lilo and
> eventually got asked to put the second cd in and hit ok.  No problem more
> files were being installed.  Then I dozed off for a little bit and when I
> woke up all was silent.  I used the keys to find out what was on the
> screen and found the whole system had locked and control had gone away
> from the keyboard.  I take it that this is the penguin's way of telling me
> I neeed more installation practice.  Though next time when packages start
> installing I'll disconnect the litetalk from the computer.  I found that
> allows installation to go much faster.  My install also warns me it's time
> to run e2fsck because check time has been reached but then goes on to do
> the install.  I hope that's not why the linux installation won't come up
> talking.  I think we're further ahead of the game though since we have the
> disk partitioned and formatted provided we can skip that step.  The boot
> disk I have loads speakup 0.9 on the system.  I'll get an update if one's
> available and needed but before I try another installation of this system.
> I did try bringing up linux on the hard drive with floppy and cd removed
> and the speech synthesier was detected but the installation came up silent
> this time too so I'll try this again tomorrow night.
> 
> Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
> 
> 
> 
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