From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HdG8Z-0001g1-00 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:36:11 -0400 Received: (qmail 13647 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Apr 2007 18:34:27 -0700 Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:34:27 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: VmWare Message-ID: <20070416013426.GA13614@localhost.localdomain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:36:11 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mind describing the procedure you took, (I.E. what vmware programs to download, since there is a player and server), and everything that you did? Is running gnu/linux in vmware with windows as the host really a viable alternative to resizing existing partitions, and dealing with installing on machines with no serial ports? Thanks. Greg On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:23:10PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Howdy, > I'm glad to be able to report that I was able to get a fully speakup-enabled installation of Gentoo Linux onto a VmWare image. This helps solve some rather annoying problems with my particular computer, specifically the cdrom drive being a little flaky. > I've found that Espeak works very well in the virtual machine, and that in general unless I'm doing something intensive--like compilation--the performance is great. > I'm actually rather proud of myself in that I was able to do this installation without sighted help, something which I had previously needed. > I'll stop rambling now. > Thanks for listening, > Zack. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGItKi7s9z/XlyUyARAm/ZAJ9arNfJsVggG4MdOg3KsvEreMd8UwCbBapK MhPvIaialyxe2Ahzbfayajo= =Qwnx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----