From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: redhat speakup distribution installation problem.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:23:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205231117520.16678-100000@toccata.rednote.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c20245$b4bed740$65e6673e@nektarios>
Hi, Nektarios:
You've stumbled across a known bug in the current release of the
Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. There is a workaround and
we're working on a solution. The workaround is also documented in
the latest draft version of our installation HOWTO available at:
http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html
Here's what you should do:
1.) Create a bootable floppy or a bootable cdrom using only
the boot floppy image.
2.) Boot from this floppy (or cdrom) without the
installation cd rom available to the system. In other words, keep
the drive bay open, or don't insert the installation CD ROM yet.
3.) This will give you an additional screen that asks you to
specify where the installation images can be found. At this point
you can insert the CD ROM and continue.
PS: There is also a second bug where the speech appears to be one
line below where your selection actually is. In other words, your
installation language selection appears to default to French,
though it is actually on English. Be careful. This behavior
continues on many screens. The problem has been narrowed the the
new release of ncurses and the newt library in particular. We are
also working toward a fix with this problem.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Nektarios Mallas wrote:
> Hi listers.
> I downloaded and trying to install the linux speakup distribution.
> I successfuly boott with my speech synthesizer, select English as language
> and speakup as keyboard. That's when the problem ocures. I get a message
> that an unhandled exception from anaconda happened, and my system shuts
> down, the cd is ejected and the only option is to reboot. It also says
> something like a bug report that I can save to a floppy and send it to
> anaconda's development team.
> Can someone help? Should I choose another keyboard layout?
> Thanks alot.
> Nektarios.
>
>
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