From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 1 14:09:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12421 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12414 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager [206.173.119.82]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.6/(97/05/21 3.30)) id RAA20266; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:09:11 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from localhost by voyager.cris.com (8.8.5) id RAA11823; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:09:10 -0400 (EDT) From: REDTHUNDER To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: a folow-up to the installing freebsd from a remote terminal.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again. To refresh the memory, I am the totally blind system administrator who was trying to install freebsd from a remote serial terminal. Thanks first of all to those who replied with instructions. I have tried many stepps, but to no success getting speech through my terminal emulator to complete the freebsd install. As Doug White wrote in a message to me, if a -h was typed after the kernel boots, everything should be rerouted to com1 at 9600 baud. He also warned me that the installer program uses a gui. Well, I put in the bootfloppy and waited for disk activity to stop. I typed: -h and hit the enter key. The disk started churjning again, and nothing for about 12 seconds, and the hard drive started making noises. But, after all that no speech. I then rebooted, waited for disk activity to stop, hit enter this time, and waited for disk activities to stop again, then typed -h and enter. Still nothing. Just to make sure everything was plugged in correctly, I launched linux, and got speech running just as I usually do. If I may be doing something incorrectly, would someone please correct me. :) I almost hate to bring this up, because I know how busy the freebsd developers are. However, could it be possible to have a text-based install floppy? I can tell you first hand, I am not the first blind individual to use unix, and of course, as many of you know, freebsd does have a lot to offer. Like I said, I am not asking for a handout, but I would like to see some kind of solution if at all possible, but I understand the plates of the developers are overflowing with things to do. :) Sorry for the long post, but just wanted to update everyone on my adventures in trying to get freebsd install to talk. Thanks. Jeremy