difficulty at the end of installation of fc4

difficulty at the end of installation of fc4

[Jeremy R Schmidt]

Hello everyone.

Since fc4 doesn't talk during installation, I installed over telnet.

Now, when it asks to reboot, I press alt and f2, but nothing happens.

Apparently, my telnet program is not sending the alt key over the telnet connection.

Is there a way to do this?

I'd like to be able to turn firstboot off, etc, but don't know how to do this.

Thanks,

Jeremy

Re: difficulty at the end of installation of fc4

[Janina Sajka]

Are you following the steps in the installation HOWTO? It tells you how
to do this after booting. It involves going into single user mode.

Also, you should be able to Ctrl-Z to a shell prompt from the reboot
screen.

Jeremy R Schmidt writes:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Since fc4 doesn't talk during installation, I installed over telnet.
> 
> Now, when it asks to reboot, I press alt and f2, but nothing happens.
> 
> Apparently, my telnet program is not sending the alt key over the telnet connection.
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> I'd like to be able to turn firstboot off, etc, but don't know how to do this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeremy
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

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Re: difficulty at the end of installation of fc4

[Jeremy R Schmidt]

I looked at the single user mode stuff, but that seems like it would be hard 
to use as well since I wouldn't have speech.

Is there a way to make speakup run after booting into single user mode?

What do you advise?

Is there a way to telnet in remotely to install the kernel RPMS and stuff 
like that?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: difficulty at the end of installation of fc4


> Are you following the steps in the installation HOWTO? It tells you how
> to do this after booting. It involves going into single user mode.
>
> Also, you should be able to Ctrl-Z to a shell prompt from the reboot
> screen.
>
> Jeremy R Schmidt writes:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Since fc4 doesn't talk during installation, I installed over telnet.
>>
>> Now, when it asks to reboot, I press alt and f2, but nothing happens.
>>
>> Apparently, my telnet program is not sending the alt key over the telnet 
>> connection.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this?
>>
>> I'd like to be able to turn firstboot off, etc, but don't know how to do 
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
>
> Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272
> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
>
> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and 
> Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> 

Re: difficulty at the end of installation of fc4

[Janina Sajka]

Well, it's always harder without speech, of course. But, until you
install and configura a Speakup MOdified kernel, you're not going to
have speech anyway. In that sense single user mode is no different from
multi-user, networked mode.

Do you have ssh on the computer you used for speech during your telnet
install? If so you can do:

service network start

from the shell prompt in single user and ssh in. Ssh should be up and
running, but if not,

service sshd start

will do it. I presume you put pcspkr in your initrd.img? If so, you'll
have the beep from backspace at the command prompt to give you useful
feedback. And, you can alarm ping some other machine:

ping -a [ip.address]

If you don't have ssh, you should probably use your installation media
and go into rescue mode so that you can again use telnet. At the Boot>
prompt you would do something like:

text rescue telnet ip=[addr] netmask=[addr] gateway=[addr]

Jeremy R Schmidt writes:
> I looked at the single user mode stuff, but that seems like it would be hard 
> to use as well since I wouldn't have speech.
> 
> Is there a way to make speakup run after booting into single user mode?
> 
> What do you advise?
> 
> Is there a way to telnet in remotely to install the kernel RPMS and stuff 
> like that?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: difficulty at the end of installation of fc4
> 
> 
> > Are you following the steps in the installation HOWTO? It tells you how
> > to do this after booting. It involves going into single user mode.
> >
> > Also, you should be able to Ctrl-Z to a shell prompt from the reboot
> > screen.
> >
> > Jeremy R Schmidt writes:
> >> Hello everyone.
> >>
> >> Since fc4 doesn't talk during installation, I installed over telnet.
> >>
> >> Now, when it asks to reboot, I press alt and f2, but nothing happens.
> >>
> >> Apparently, my telnet program is not sending the alt key over the telnet 
> >> connection.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to do this?
> >>
> >> I'd like to be able to turn firstboot off, etc, but don't know how to do 
> >> this.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272
> > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com
> >
> > Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and 
> > Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.
> >
> > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG)
> > janina@freestandards.org http://a11y.org
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.240.715.1272
Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC	http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com

Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more.

Chair, Accessibility Workgroup		Free Standards Group (FSG)
janina@freestandards.org		http://a11y.org