Re: Installation of Redhat without a sighted assistance

[Whistler <whistler blinksoft com>]

Well while installation would be great I was also wondering about
something.  I have 3 servers that I admin  they are all installed already.
The problem for me is not Installation it is updating it.

I find it extreemly rediculus that I have to have sighted assistence to
update myservers with a new redhat cd unless I want to hunt and peck out
the rpm's myself.  Why isn't there a console version of the update stuff
youc an run with out booting off the cd rom?

Ken /whistler

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> Hello, listers!
> Has anyone tried to contact Redhat concerning making their installation more
> accessible to the blind? At this point the only way I can see is in using
> the kickstart script. However, in a couple of cases I have seen it doesn't
> exactly follow the logic of what is outlined in the README file that
> accompanies the utility. Microsoft WIndows, for a long time already, allowed
> its users to install itself with just a similar script. (Although it was
> rarely documented). Redhat went quite ahead with their  kickstart procedure,
> which might prove to be useful. However, there are two problems:
> 1. Users with little knowledge of Linux and how the process of
> repartitioning works can be easily disoriented. If the script is
> badly-constructed or Redhat is confused about something, it will just stop
> and ask you certain questions, which is of no use to the blind. So,
> certainly, a more context-sensitive help would be needed here.
> 2. The structure of Redhat installation, as I understand it, doesn't allow
> blind users to get speech output before installation is finished. Kirk with
> his Speakup has a very nice idea of compiling speech into kernel. Do you
> think it would be possible to make this a standart on all Linux
> distributions? Say, they would include a kernel with precompiled speech and,
> of course, the speech patch would incorporate some automation routines to
> detect a speech synth.
> 
> Should we start perhaps bugging Redhat and others? Can we? Is it fair?
> Let me know what you think.
> Victor
> 
> 
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