Fedora question

Fedora question

[Glenn Ervin]

Hello everyone,
I was wondering, is there a Live CD version of Fedora?
I have tried Ubuntu on 4 of my computers, 3 of which are laptops, and so 
far, no sound on the 2 newer systems, and it does not seem to even boot on 
the 2 older units, one is a gateway desktop, and the other is a Presario 
1800 laptop.
Maybe even if there is a Fedora Live version, maybe there is no software 
speech anyway.
Any sure-fire distros available which I could try?
Thanks
Glenn

fedora question

[Jude DaShiell]

in /etc/sysconfig/init there's a statement by default that reads 
graphical-boot-up=yes.  In what reading I've been doing, it was stated to 
permanently disable graphical boot up to set that line to no.  Does that 
really have any impact on speakup?  If someone used that command line as a 
shortcut to disable graphical boot up and say didn't turn off firstboot 
would firstboot come up anyway?  If nobody has yet checked this out, I can 
do some experimentation and will put another message up with the 
information on what happened.

Re: fedora question

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.  What you want to do is edit the default runlevel ID to 3. 
That will give you a text login screen by default and won't start XDM or 
whatever graphical login you'd use.  Of course, if you have need for an X 
server after you login, you can either use xinit or StartX.  Whatever you 
like.  Its even possible to have multiple displays on an X server.  Say 
for example you wanted to play with Gnome-based applications and you 
wnated to use Freedombox?   This is possible, as I'm doing this very thing 
as we speak.  Hopefully this helps.
Cheers,
Erik

Fedora Question

[Janina Sajka]

Erik has given the correct answer. However, I feel it necessary to point
out that this very same answer is given in the installation HOWTO for
the Speakup Modified Fedora Core. Clearly, the person who first asked
about this wasn't paying attention to the HOWTO. I point this out
because this is an example of making up inappropriate answers, when the
correct answers are readily at hand. If I sound like this makes me
upset, it is because that's exactly how I feel. Such practices lead to
inaccurate posts and unwarranted complaints about things that aren't
broken, except in the poster's mind. We need to stop that kind of thing
now.

Erik Heil writes:
> Hi their.  What you want to do is edit the default runlevel ID to 3.
> That will give you a text login screen by default and won't start XDM
> or
> whatever graphical login you'd use.  Of course, if you have need for
> an X
> server after you login, you can either use xinit or StartX.  Whatever
> you
> like.  Its even possible to have multiple displays on an X server.
> Say
> for example you wanted to play with Gnome-based applications and you
> wnated to use Freedombox?   This is possible, as I'm doing this very
> thing
> as we speak.  Hopefully this helps.
> Cheers,
> Erik

Re: fedora question

[Michael K. Martin]

I got the boot iso and the three speakup enabled isos from the speakup site.
I was able to get the Fedora Core 1.0 working.

Speakup gave me speech throughout the installation process.  I could only
choose grub as the boot manager and when I rebooted  it came up in graphical
mode.  Fortunately it beeps at the login prompt and I can get to the console
with ctrl alt f1.

I am having trouble with gnopernicus.  The speech is too fast and the
magnification is too small and garbled.

Still easier to get installed than any other OS I've ever used!