Re: debian vs redhat

[Bryan Smart <bsmart@pobox.com>]

At 08:02 PM 1/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Installation: Slackware installation is the best documented.  I
>have not found a way to install Debian without sighted assistance.  I
>don't know about Red Hat.

Redhat's Installer disk is graphical, and doesn't seem to be operable by
blind users.  Redhat 5 does support an automated install procedure (can't
remember what it is called right now).  This procedure takes all of the
installation info from a file, and it is very similar to the related
install methods for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.  This method only works for
installs from the Redhat CD or over NFS.  You can not install from an MsDOS
partition with this method (although I don't know why not).

Someone should seriously bug Redhat for a terminal based installation.

>However, I am sighted, so there are no doubt other issues I am not
>aware of.  

Jim, I had no idea you were sighted.  When you speak of Emacspeak, however,
you do so as if you were a user.  This is strange to me.

Best,
Bryan

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Bryan R. Smart
E-Mail: bsmart@pobox.com

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