gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express

gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express

[Nick Gawronski]

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? 

Re: gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express

[William Hubbs]

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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,

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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
williamh@gentoo.org
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Re: gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express

[Nick Gawronski]

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?
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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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