From: "Nick Gawronski" <nick@nickgawronski.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:11:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201c7d6d3$93bbcb30$270110ac@CHIHUAHUAL1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070804184524.GA14558@linux1>
Hi, Is there a way to use the live CD and easily install it to my hard drive
or will I need to go threw all of the tasks in the hand book?
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hubbs" <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express
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> Hi Nick,
>
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>> Hi, I found that the gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express I
>> typed
>> at the boot prompt gentoo speakup_synth=dectlk nox and everything booted
>> ok.
>> Partitioning my hard drive with gentoo I can't figure out. I want my
>> swap
>> partition to still be the same but when I tried to recreate the reiserfs
>> filesystem I could not find out what to press as the choices are not
>> numberd. How do I go about this and I keep getting stuck in a loop where
>> I
>> hit the delete partition and hit no then can't get out of that screen to
>> tell the installation how I want the partition. I want one partition as
>> swap and one is / the root. How in the text based installer-dialog do
>> you
>> do these tasks?
>
> I do not recommend that you use the installer. The handbook will guide
> you through doing an install manually.
>
> I never used the installer myself. I found I had no trouble at all
> with the process outlined in the handbook.
>
> Basically, you use fdisk to set up the partitions the way you want them,
> then you can set up the filesystems, format the partitions and go from
> there.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - --
> William Hubbs
> gentoo accessibility team lead
> williamh@gentoo.org
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