FC4 installation hangs

[Janina Sajka]

I don't know why your system is hanging. However, I would recommend
trying the boot media from the brltty site instead of stock Fedora
images.

The Speakup option is definitely superfluous. The Speakup Modified of
Fedora 4 is not yet released. At this time Speakup is not compiling into
the FC4 kernel. We are working on it--but it's not there yet, and would
not be in the Fedora release itself in any case. The Speakup Modified is
a separate distribution.

Osvaldo La Rosa writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm on an old Pentium 200MMX with an old hardware braille dispaly 
> Tieman Octobraille who reads via its slotcard from a 16-bit old 
> Trident SVGA8900C video card.
> 
> I burned yesterday the 4 fedora Core 4 CDs + the Rescue one,
> 
> and I'm trying to boot as follow:
> 
> as soon as I hear the CD being booted I enter:
>  linux text no-scroll video=vga16:off askmethod speakup_synth=dtlk <ENTER>
> 
> I see passing hardware detections hda hdd etc, until a Run.....
> then it stops,
> 
> and no alt+f2 or so who may help,
> nor DASH or ENTER
> 
> Only 2x ctrl+alt+del or PC-reset help.
> 
> Should it be necessary to burn the Braillified CD even if I don't need 
> brltty here?
> Or am I dumped in a framebuffer as long as I don't disable splash or 
> hardware detection/other?
> 
> (Its my first time I try Fedora: I hope it runs on old pcs).
> 
> Aldo.
> 
> 
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