From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: trouble installing linux
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:40:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE6D97EADB524EE38F9F20C320A20745@kazam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E43CA3EA18E483590044437E676956A@tess>
If running from a live cd you don't have a lot of options but if the vm has
the OS installed installing the vmware tools into the virtual OS can help a
lot especially the network driver.
The AMD driver in Linux does work but the vmware specific one works a lot
better.
Regards, Kerry.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Pirika" <arfy@andrelouis.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:41 AM
Subject: trouble installing linux
> hi, I have a strange problem, and wondering if anyone here has any ideas.
> I want to play with linux, but would like to try it in a vm under windows,
> to try things out. I have two distros here, arch, and grml. I'm using
> windows xp pro sp3, and vmWare player 3.01.
>
> Arch loads perfectly fine, speakup comes up, but lately, arch is seeming
> to have trouble retrieving packages. Protocol and/or timeout errors are
> the norm here. Even selecting different mirrors doesn't help.
> Grml just refuses to speak, but it does seem to load. as far as i know,
> I'm giving the boot loader grml swspeakup as it's options. Maybe i need to
> try a different vm?
> btw, this is grml 2009.10.
>
> tia,
> Arthur.
>
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