Linux without sighted help

[Imbar Golt]

Thanks,

I will try that.

Imbar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Linux without sighted help


> There are other VMs out there that will work under XP or even Windows 98 
> but they aren't as stable and are far more difficult to use.  You can try 
> Bochs http://bochs.sf.net/ or Qemu http://www.qemu.org/  With the later, 
> there is a free OS zoo with many prebuilt disk images, but they won't be 
> designed for speech.  I never got my serial port working with either one 
> so you would be limited to live CD images with software speech.  Bochs is 
> supposed to emulate serial but I never got it to work.  Finally, you can 
> look for Microsoft Virtual PC 2005.  It's older and will expire after a 
> trial period but will work on XP Home.
>
> Imbar Golt wrote:
>> Thanks I am running xp home, so I guess it won't work.
>>
>> Imbar
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony at baechler.net>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:50 AM
>> Subject: Re: Linux without sighted help
>>
>>
>>> running XP Pro or better, try Microsoft Virtual PC.  You can boot 
>>> virtual CD images that way and that might work.  Your best bet would be 
>>> software speech since XP does weird things with your serial port.  Just 
>>> make sure to emulate a virtual sound card.  Note that I haven't actually 
>>> tried this but I got a FreeDOS boot floppy to boot this way.  You could 
>>> also try VMWare, Bochs, and Qemu but I've had the best luck with 
>>> Microsoft Virtual PC.  Note that VPC won't run on XP Home or Windows 9X.
>>>
>>> Imbar Golt wrote:
>>>> Please I need something that won't boot from a CD, since I don't have 
>>>> sighted help to change the boot sequence.  If there is any distribution 
>>>> or virtual consol that can work under windows or boot when Windows is 
>>>> already on the computer?
>
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