serial installation

serial installation

[Sergey Fleytin]

Hello, all.

I have a question concerning serial installation of linux. I made such
installations several times without any problem, but i had to use
speech enabled windows box as a "talking terminal". My question is,
how can i use speech enabled linux machine for the same purpose? I
tried minicom, but without success. It seems to me that it can work
only with modem. Though i might have missed something? Any suggestions
will be highly appreciated. 

With best regards,

Sergey.

Re: serial installation

[Steve Holmes]

I'm sure you could use minicom but you would have to disable any modem
initialization.  Or at least start minicom with a modem in place to
get it up and going but then unplug the modem and hook up the null
modem cable or a cable with a null modem adaptor on it to the computer
you are trying to install on.  Oh, one other thing; be sure your baud
rates match up.  I'll bet most systems when booting from scratch would
probably be going at 9600,n,8,1 and minicom would typically talk to a
modem at 38400 or higher.

Hope this helps.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:17:00AM +0300, Sergey Fleytin wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> I have a question concerning serial installation of linux. I made such
> installations several times without any problem, but i had to use
> speech enabled windows box as a "talking terminal". My question is,
> how can i use speech enabled linux machine for the same purpose? I
> tried minicom, but without success. It seems to me that it can work
> only with modem. Though i might have missed something? Any suggestions
> will be highly appreciated. 
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Sergey.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 

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Re: serial installation

[Alex Snow]

minicom should be able to work with straight serial connections. or at 
least that's what I think...what you want to do is run minicom -s and 
tell it to use the serial port you have your box connected to.
On Sun, 
Jan 18, 2004 at 11:17:00AM +0300, Sergey Fleytin wrote:
> Hello, all.
> 
> I have a question concerning serial installation of linux. I made such
> installations several times without any problem, but i had to use
> speech enabled windows box as a "talking terminal". My question is,
> how can i use speech enabled linux machine for the same purpose? I
> tried minicom, but without success. It seems to me that it can work
> only with modem. Though i might have missed something? Any suggestions
> will be highly appreciated. 
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> Sergey.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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