installing redhat 6?

["Joel Zimba" <jzimba erols com>]

Hi all,
  while on the subject, what is the easiest way to get say...
brltty or abt running with the install disk of redhat 6?

Is it possible?  or can you not get it on the disk easily?

any thoughts?
Last time I installed it, I managed to make my computer to lock up somehow.

I could run a boot disk to linux, but coulden't boot to dos... the dos stuff
was there, but coulden't get it to boot.

that was the strangest thing I've ever seen.  something to do with disk
translation I think, but can't be sure.

ahh well... been a while since I posted here...

Hi everyone!!

Nicolas?  Hans?  remember me?

wave,

Joel


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael P. Gorse [mailto:mgorse WPI EDU]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 6:42 PM
To: blinux-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Accessibility issues of GUI interface in Linux


On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, L. C. Robinson wrote:
[snip]
> Some day there will no doubt be a special linux distribution
> adapted especially for the visually impaired.  We have already seen
> discussion of this sort of thing, but there are not yet enough
> people available to pull it off.  I believe we already have seen
> some installation disks, but they were not general enough, and
> maintenance/obsolence is a continuing problem with the presently
> available manpower: that should change.
>
I think it would be nice to have something like this; once we have the
necessary tools we could adapt one of the distributions to have an install
program that a blind person could just install and get working.
Especially once we have a usable software synthesizer, Linux could provide
a solution to a blind user at no cost above the cost of the computer.
Mbrola seems to be capable of working well; it's closed-source as far as I
know but binaries are available on a lot of platforms.  Festival is more
free but hasn't seemed very responsive when I've used it; not sure why
though.  Some of mbrola's tts programs seem to insert silence phonemes
around their text, so I'd guess that reducing or removing these might help
for a software synthesizer, but I haven't experimented with that yet
(Softspeech might already do this; not sure).  I don't know if festival
does something similar or not.




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